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Wild-type Rinderpest virus uses SLAM (CD150) as its receptor.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jun 2005
Baron Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Rinderpest virus (RPV) is a morbillivirus, related closely to the human pathogen Measles virus (MV). Although cell culture-adapted strains of RPV can infect many kinds of cell from different hosts, one such strain has previously been shown to have a detectable preference for cells expressing the MV receptor CD150 (SLAM), a protein found only on certain types of activated T cells, B cells and dendritic cells....
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