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Measles virus hemagglutinin has been isolated by immunoadsorption. The total composition of the protein and its N-terminal amino acid sequence give data matching the structure indirectly deduced from cDNA. However, direct analysis of the hemagglutinin also shows that the mature protein is proteolytically processed and has a partly heterogeneous N-terminus. The initiator Met is removed, and non-stoichiometrically also the second residue.
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Varsanyi et al. (1986) studied this question.
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