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SUBMITTER: Streltsov VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6360442 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Streltsov Victor A VA Schmidt Peter M PM McKimm-Breschkin Jennifer L JL
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications 20190123 Pt 2
The influenza neuraminidase (NA) is a homotetramer with head, stalk, transmembrane and cytoplasmic regions. The structure of the NA head with a stalk has never been determined. The NA head from an N9 subtype influenza A virus, A/tern/Australia/G70C/1975 (H1N9), was expressed with an artificial stalk derived from the tetrabrachion (TB) tetramerization domain from Staphylothermus marinus. The NA was successfully crystallized both with and without the TB stalk, and the structures were determined to ...[more]