Prolonged norovirus infections correlate to quasispecies evolution resulting in structural changes of surface-exposed epitopes

Summary: In this study, we analyzed norovirus (NoV) evolution in sequential samples of six chronically infected patients. The capsid gene was amplified from stool samples, and deep sequencing was performed. The role of amino acid flexibility in structural changes and ligand binding was studied with...

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Main Authors: Suliman Qadir Afridi, Zainab Usman, Sainitin Donakonda, Jochen Martin Wettengel, Stoyan Velkov, Robert Beck, Markus Gerhard, Percy Knolle, Dmitrij Frishman, Ulrike Protzer, Hassan Moeini, Dieter Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221007707