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Cutaneous and mucosal human papillomaviruses differ in net surface charge, potential impact on tropism
14 Oct 2008
Abstract excerpt
Papillomaviruses can roughly be divided into two tropism groups, those infecting the skin, including the genus beta PVs, and those infecting the mucosa, predominantly genus alpha PVs. The L1 capsid protein determines the phylogenetic separation between beta types and alpha types and the L1 protein is most probably responsible for the first interaction with the cell surface. Virus entry is a known determinant for...
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