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Utilization of sialic acid as a coreceptor is required for reovirus-induced biliary disease.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Jun 2003
Barton Erik S, Youree Bryan E, Ebert Daniel H, Forrest J Craig, Connolly Jodi L, Valyi-Nagy Tibor, Washington Kay, Wetzel J Denise, Dermody Terence S
Abstract excerpt
Infection of neonatal mice with some reovirus strains produces a disease similar to infantile biliary atresia, but previous attempts to correlate reovirus infection with this disease have yielded conflicting results. We used isogenic reovirus strains T3SA- and T3SA+, which differ solely in the capacity to bind sialic acid as a coreceptor, to define the role of sialic acid in reovirus encephalitis and biliary...
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