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ReviewTrends in microbiology2006

The structural basis of paramyxovirus invasion.

Charles J Russell, Laura E Luque

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Review in Trends in microbiology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Functional and antigenic constraints on the Nipah virus fusion protein.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Functional and antigenic constraints on the Nipah virus fusion protein.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. Virus-Mediated Cell-Cell Fusion.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  13. Probing the paramyxovirus fusion (F) protein-refolding event from pre- to postfusion by oxidative footprinting.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Charles J RussellDepartment of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105-2794, USA. charles.russell@stjude.org
Laura E Luque

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI SUZANNE J. BAKER · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
NCI NIH HHS CA 21765NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To deliver their genetic material into host cells, enveloped viruses have surface glycoproteins that actively cause the fusion of the viral and cellular membranes. Recently determined X-ray crystal structures of the paramyxovirus fusion (F) protein in its pre-fusion and post-fusion conformations reveal the dramatic structural transformation that this protein undergoes while causing membrane fusion. Conformational changes in key regions of the F protein suggest the mechanism by which the F protein is activated and refolds.

Indexed as

Membrane FusionParamyxoviridaeProtein ConformationProtein Structure, TertiaryViral Fusion ProteinsViral Fusion Proteins

Identifiers

PMID16678421
PMCPMC7119026

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