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Virions at the Gates: Receptors and the Host–Virus Arms Race

All viruses need to bind to specific receptor molecules on the surface of target cells to initiate infection. Virus–receptor binding is highly specific, and this specificity determines both the species and the cell type that can be infected by a given virus. In some well-studied cases, the virus-bin...

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Autor principal: Coffin, John M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3665852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23723739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001574