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The C terminus of the B5 receptor for herpes simplex virus contains a functional region important for infection.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2005
Perez-Romero Pilar, Fuller A Oveta
Abstract excerpt
The expression of a previously uncharacterized human hfl-B5 cDNA confers susceptibility for herpes simplex virus (HSV) to porcine cells and fulfills criteria as an HSV entry receptor (A. Perez, Q.-X. Li, P. Perez-Romero, G. DeLassus, S. R. Lopez, S. Sutter, N. McLaren, and A. Oveta Fuller, J. Virol. 79:7419-7430, 2005). Heptad repeats found in the B5 C terminus are predicted to form an alpha-helix for coiled coil...
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