2011-10-19Zeitschriftenartikel
Growth of influenza A virus is not impeded by simultaneous removal of the cholesterol binding and acylation sites in the M2 protein
Thaa, Bastian; Tielesch, Claudia; Möller, Lars; Schmitt, Armin O.; Wolff, Thorsten; Bannert, Norbert; Herrmann, Andreas; Veit, Michael
Influenza virus assembly and budding occur in the 'budozone', a coalesced raft domain in the plasma membrane. The viral transmembrane protein M2 is implicated in virus particle scission, the ultimate step in virus budding, ...