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Mechanisms of avian retroviral host range extension.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2003
Rainey G Jonah A, Natonson Andrew, Maxfield Lori F, Coffin John M
Abstract excerpt
Alpharetroviruses provide a useful system for the study of the molecular mechanisms of host range and receptor interaction. These viruses can be divided into subgroups based on diverse receptor usage due to variability within the two host range determining regions, hr1 and hr2, in their envelope glycoprotein SU (gp85). In previous work, our laboratory described selection from a subgroup B avian sarcoma-leukosis...
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