Cysteine Residues in the Major Capsid Protein, Vp1, of the JC Virus Are Important for Protein Stability and Oligomer Formation

• Shintaro Kobayashi,

  Affiliations Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan, Global COE Program for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Tadaki Suzuki,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Manabu Igarashi,

  Affiliation Division of Bioinfomatics, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yasuko Orba,

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

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• Noriko Ohtake,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Keita Nagakawa,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Kenichi Niikura,

  Affiliation Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Takashi Kimura,

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

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• Harumi Kasamatsu,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Hirofumi Sawa

  * E-mail: h-sawa@czc.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliations Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan, Global COE Program for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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