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Viroporins, Examples of the Two-Stage Membrane Protein Folding Model

Overview of attention for article published in Viruses, June 2015
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Title
Viroporins, Examples of the Two-Stage Membrane Protein Folding Model
Published in
Viruses, June 2015
DOI 10.3390/v7072781
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Authors

Luis Martinez-Gil, Ismael Mingarro

Abstract

Viroporins are small, α-helical, hydrophobic virus encoded proteins, engineered to form homo-oligomeric hydrophilic pores in the host membrane. Viroporins participate in multiple steps of the viral life cycle, from entry to budding. As any other membrane protein, viroporins have to find the way to bury their hydrophobic regions into the lipid bilayer. Once within the membrane, the hydrophobic helices of viroporins interact with each other to form higher ordered structures required to correctly perform their porating activities. This two-step process resembles the two-stage model proposed for membrane protein folding by Engelman and Poppot. In this review we use the membrane protein folding model as a leading thread to analyze the mechanism and forces behind the membrane insertion and folding of viroporins. We start by describing the transmembrane segment architecture of viroporins, including the number and sequence characteristics of their membrane-spanning domains. Next, we connect the differences found among viroporin families to their viral genome organization, and finalize focusing on the pathways used by viroporins in their way to the membrane and on the transmembrane helix-helix interactions required to achieve proper folding and assembly.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 2%
Sri Lanka 1 2%
Unknown 41 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 16%
Student > Master 5 12%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Professor 3 7%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 8 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 30%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 9%
Chemistry 3 7%
Engineering 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 10 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 May 2020.
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#2,872,281
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#1,181
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#35,908
of 267,876 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Viruses
#14
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