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Science 7 February 1969:
Vol. 163. no. 3867, pp. 573 - 574
DOI: 10.1126/science.163.3867.573
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Myxovirus Envelope Proteins: A Directing Influence on the Faffy Acids of Membrane Lipids

John M. Tiffany 1 and Herbert A. Blough 1

1 Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104

Acyl chain compositions of the lipids of three strains of influenza virus show differences not anticipated from current theories of myxovirus assembly. Fatty acids of viruses with antigenically related envelope proteins show greater resemblance than those of an unrelated strain, which suggests that these proteins influence the composition of membrane lipids at the site of viral release.

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