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J Gen Virol 75 (1994), 637-639; DOI 10.1099/0022-1317-75-3-637
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Prediction of a putative fusion peptide in the S protein of hepatitis B virus

Ignacio Rodríguez-Crespo1, Julián Gómez-Gutiérrez1, Marta Nieto1, Darrell L. Peterson2 and Francisco Gavilanes1

1 Departmento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
and2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298, U.S.A.

Sequence analysis of the S protein of hepatitis B virus (HBV) reveals a stretch of 23 hydrophobic amino acids in the amino-terminal region which shows a high degree of similarity with known fusogenic peptides from other viruses. Additionally, this sequence also appears to be highly conserved within the hepadnavirus family. Taken together, the different criteria used in this work suggest fusogenic activity in the amino-terminal region of the S protein of the envelope of HBV.

Received 2 July 1993; accepted 19 October 1993.


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