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Bacterium-Like Particles Displaying the Rift Valley Fever Virus Gn Head Protein Induces Efficacious Immune Responses in Immunized Mice

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), a mosquito-borne zoonotic phlebovirus, causes serious disease in humans and ruminants. According to the World Health Organization, Rift Valley fever is classified as a priority disease, and as such, vaccine development is ...
Shengnan Zhang, Feihu Yan, Dongping Liu, Entao Li, Na Feng, Shengnan Xu, Hualei Wang, Yuwei Gao, Songtao Yang, Yongkun Zhao, Xianzhu Xia   +10 more
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A single mutation in the envelope protein modulates flavivirus antigenicity, stability, and pathogenesis [PDF]

, 2017
The structural flexibility or 'breathing' of the envelope (E) protein of flaviviruses allows virions to sample an ensemble of conformations at equilibrium.
Diamond, Michael S, Dowd, Kimberly A, Goo, Leslie, Pierson, Theodore C, VanBlargan, Laura A   +4 more
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The Hemagglutinin-Neuraminidase (HN) Head Domain and the Fusion (F) Protein Stalk Domain of the Parainfluenza Viruses Affect the Specificity of the HN-F Interaction

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
Membrane fusion by the parainfluenza viruses is induced by virus-specific functional interaction between the attachment protein (HN) and the fusion (F) protein.
Masato Tsurudome, Junpei Ohtsuka, Morihiro Ito, Machiko Nishio, Tetsuya Nosaka   +4 more
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Protective antibodies against human parainfluenza virus type 3 infection

mAbs, 2021
Human parainfluenza virus type III (HPIV3) is a common respiratory pathogen that afflicts children and can be fatal in vulnerable populations, including the immunocompromised. There are currently no effective vaccines or therapeutics available, resulting
Jim Boonyaratanakornkit, Suruchi Singh, Connor Weidle, Justas Rodarte, Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam, Jonathan Perkins, Guillaume B.E. Stewart-Jones, Peter D. Kwong, Andrew T. McGuire, Marie Pancera, Justin J. Taylor   +10 more
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VAMP721 conformations unmask an extended motif for K+ channel binding and gating control [PDF]

, 2016
Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins play a major role in membrane fusion and contribute to cell expansion, signaling, and polar growth in plants.
Blatt, Mike R., Donald, Naomi Alice, Karnik, Rucha, Waghmare, Sakharam, Zhang, Ben   +4 more
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Posttranslational control of membrane-skeleton (ankyrin and alpha beta- spectrin) assembly in early myogenesis [PDF]

, 1985
Adult chicken skeletal muscle cells express polypeptides that are antigenically related to alpha-spectrin (Mr 240,000) and beta-spectrin (Mr 220,000-225,000), the major components of the erythrocyte membrane- skeleton, and to ankyrin (Mr 237,000; also ...
Lazarides, Elias, Nelson, W. James
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation Reveals Exposed Residues in the Ligand-Binding Domain of the Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor that Interacts with Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-G Envelope

Viruses, 2019
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an autosomal dominant disease most often caused by mutations in the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene, which consists of 18 exons spanning 45 kb and codes for a precursor protein of 860 amino acids ...
Faisal A. Al-Allaf, Zainularifeen Abduljaleel, Mohiuddin M. Taher, Ahmed A. H. Abdellatif, Mohammad Athar, Neda M. Bogari, Mohammed N. Al-Ahdal, Futwan Al-Mohanna, Zuhair N. Al-Hassnan, Kamal H. Y. Alzabeedi, Talib M. Banssir, Abdellatif Bouazzaoui   +11 more
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Recombinant human preproinsulin expression, purification and reaction with insulin autoantibodies in sera from patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [PDF]

, 1993
A novel prokaryotic expression vector pGEX-6T was designed for high-level expression of recombinant fusion protein with a histidine-hexapeptide and glutathione-S-transferase at its N-terminus and the recombinant human preproinsulin at its C-terminus ...
Amman, Atkinson, Baekkeskov, Baekkeskov, Berthold, Boitard, Bottazzo, Castano, Dean, Frorath, Goedel, Greenbaum, Harrison, Heike Berg, Hopp, Jochen Seissler, Karjalainen, Kaufman, Kuglin, Kuglin, Ludwig Mauch, Michael Walter, Palmer, Patrick, Seissler, Smith, Smith, Snyder, Su, Wolfgang Northemann   +29 more
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Production of Circularly Permuted Caspase-2 for Affinity Fusion-Tag Removal: Cloning, Expression in Escherichia coli, Purification, and Characterization

Biomolecules, 2020
Caspase-2 is the most specific protease of all caspases and therefore highly suitable as tag removal enzyme creating an authentic N-terminus of overexpressed tagged proteins of interest.
Monika Cserjan-Puschmann, Nico Lingg, Petra Engele, Christina Kröß, Julian Loibl, Andreas Fischer, Florian Bacher, Anna-Carina Frank, Christoph Öhlknecht, Cécile Brocard, Chris Oostenbrink, Matthias Berkemeyer, Rainer Schneider, Gerald Striedner, Alois Jungbauer   +14 more
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Targeted delivery of autoantigen to dendritic cells prevents development of spontaneous uveitis

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
Restoration of immunological tolerance to self antigens has been a major drive in understanding the mechanisms of, and developing new treatments for, autoimmune and autoinflammatory disease.
Izabela P. Klaska, Tian Yu, Tian Yu, Rosie Fordyce, Koju Kamoi, Koju Kamoi, Richard J. Cornall, Cristina Martin-Granados, Lucia Kuffova, Lucia Kuffova, John V. Forrester   +10 more
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