Abstract: At the protein level these mutations resulted in 3 main substitutions (
V29A,
W72G,
H130R), which are not considered to cause gross tertiary structure alterations in the hexameric
BARF1 protein.
Result: At the protein level most
NPC (78.6%) demonstrated 2 amino acid substitutions at position
V29A (valine to alanine) and
H130R (histidine to arginine), except 1 sample (
NPC-13) which displayed a unique conversion in the position of
W72G and
H130R.