Sentence examples for membrane fusion activity from inspiring English sources

A series of new hairpin duplexes were tested for anti-HIV-1 cell cell membrane fusion activity.

Proteolytic cleavage therefore stimulates the membrane fusion activity of Opa1, and this feature is exploited to dynamically couple mitochondrial fusion to cellular metabolism.

To compare the membrane fusion activity of full-length ATLs, we used a previously established in vitro lipid-mixing assay.

However, for H2 subtype HA it was reported that acylation does not influence HA's membrane fusion activity, but plays an essential role for virus particle assembly (Chen et al., 2005; Zurcher et al., 1994).

Proteolytic cleavage is an essential prerequisite for the membrane fusion activity of HEF (and also of HA) since it enables the protein to get activated by low pH (Herrler et al., 1981; Kitame et al., 1982; Ohuchi et al., 1982).

Each monomer of HA is synthesized as a single polypeptide (HA0) that is cleaved by host proteases into two subunits (HA1 and HA2) (Skehel and Wiley 2000), of which HA1 represents an active head region that binds to sialic acid side chains on surface glycoproteins and HA2 represents a stem region that is required for membrane fusion activity and infectivity (Skehel and Wiley 2000).

Moreover, ICV and IDV show only one surface glycoprotein, the hemagglutinin-esterase fusion (HEF) that exhibits receptor binding, receptor destroying and membrane fusion activities, thus combining the functions of HA and NA of influenza A and B viruses2.

Influenza C virus is unique since it contains only one spike protein, the hemagglutinin-esterase-fusion glycoprotein HEF that possesses receptor binding, receptor destroying and membrane fusion activities, thus combining the functions of Hemagglutinin (HA) and Neuraminidase (NA) of influenza A and B viruses.

Based on these data, we proposed that by combining MT-anchoring and membrane fusion activities GMAP210 contributes to Golgi ribbon formation around the centrosome [ 13].

The membrane-fusion activity of coronavirus S protein is mainly associated with domains in the S2 region of the protein [34] [38].

It has also been reported that membrane destabilization is essential for fusion (Ryan et al. 2005 and Domingues et al. 2009), and that peptides and proteins forming hydrophobic or hydrophilic cationic clusters show membrane-fusion activity (Cummings and Vanderlick 2007; Niidome et al. 2000; Fujii et al. 1993; Abu-Ghazaleh et al. 1992).