Charge-Surrounded Pockets and Electrostatic Interactions with Small Ions Modulate the Activity of Retroviral Fusion Proteins.
Lamb, D., Schuttelkopf, A.W., Van Aalten, D.M.F., Brighty, D.W.(2011) PLoS Pathog 7: 1268
- PubMed: 21304939 
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001268
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2XZ3 - PubMed Abstract: 
Refolding of viral class-1 membrane fusion proteins from a native state to a trimer-of-hairpins structure promotes entry of viruses into cells. Here we present the structure of the bovine leukaemia virus transmembrane glycoprotein (TM) and identify a group of asparagine residues at the membrane-distal end of the trimer-of-hairpins that is strikingly conserved among divergent viruses ...