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Dustin Edwards1, Risaku Fukumoto, Maria Fernanda de Castro-Amarante, Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara, Bernardo Galvão-Castro, Robyn Washington Parks, Cynthia Pise-Masison, Genoveffa Franchini.
Abstract
The orf-I gene of human T-cell leukemia type 1 (HTLV-1) encodes p8 and p12 and has a conserved cysteine at position 39. p8 and p12 form disulfide-linked dimers, and only the monomeric forms of p8 and p12 are palmitoylated. Mutation of cysteine 39 to alanine (C39A) abrogated dimerization and palmitoylation of both proteins. However, the ability of p8 to localize to the cell surface and to increase cell adhesion and viral transmission was not affected by the C39A mutation.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24284316 PMCID: PMC3911539 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03444-13
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103