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Virus persistence in an animal model of multiple sclerosis requires virion attachment to sialic acid coreceptors.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2004
Kumar A S Manoj, Reddi Honey V, Kung Aisha Y, Dal Canto Mauro, Lipton Howard L
Abstract excerpt
Persistent Theiler's virus infection in the central nervous system (CNS) of mice provides a highly relevant animal model for multiple sclerosis. The low-neurovirulence DA strain uses sialic acid as a coreceptor for cell binding before establishing infection. During adaptation of DA virus to growth in sialic acid-deficient cells, three amino acid substitutions (G1100D, T1081I, and T3182A) in the capsid arose, and...
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