Article
Structurally conserved domains between flavivirus and alphavirus fusion glycoproteins contribute to replication in mammals and infectious virion production
2021-06-22
Abstract excerpt
Alphaviruses and flaviviruses have class II fusion glycoproteins that are essential for virion assembly and infectivity. Importantly, the tip of domain II is structurally conserved between the alphavirus and flavivirus fusion proteins, yet whether these structural similarities between virus families translate to functional similarities is unclear. Using in vivo evolution of Zika virus (ZIKV), we identified severa...
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- Literature Corpus work
- da7d7476-a659-5a0b-8074-cec6e6ffb932
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.06.22.449399
