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Enzymatic cleavage of a glycoprotein of respiratory syncytial virus

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The 75K glycoprotein of the A2 strain of respiratory syncytial virus was cleaved by digestion with trypsin orStaphylococcus aureus protease V8. The fragments resulting from trypsin digestion were 40K and 29K; those from the Staphylococcal protease were 49K and 37K.

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  1. Susan B. Spring

    Present address: NIAID-EAP, Westwood Building, Room 706, 20205, Bethesda, MD, USA

  2. M. D. Tolpin

    Present address: Wyler Childrens Holpital, Section of Infectious Diseases, Box 286, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA

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  1. Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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Spring, S.B., Tolpin, M.D. Enzymatic cleavage of a glycoprotein of respiratory syncytial virus. Archives of Virology 76, 359–363 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01311203

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