Fig 1.
Schematic representations of viral genomes encoding wt and mutated capsid proteins. The position and sequence of the VEEV Helix I/supraNES are indicated by the red box and red letters. The position and sequence of the VEEV NLS are indicated by the blue box and blue letters. The position and sequence of the conserved peptide CP111/126 are indicated by black boxes. The sequences of the amino termini of the wt and mutated capsid proteins are aligned, and the introduced mutations are indicated. The arrows above the genome diagrams indicate the positions of the subgenomic promoters.