Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Is Not Required for Human Cytomegalovirus Entry or Signaling

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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can bind, fuse, and initiate gene expression in a diverse range of vertebrate cell types. This broad cellular tropism suggests that multiple receptors and/or universally distributed receptors mediate HCMV entry. Our laboratory has recently discovered that certain beta1 and beta3 integrin heterodimers are critical mediators of HCMV entry into permissive fibroblasts (A. L. Feire, H....

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