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HLA Class I Antigen Serves as a Receptor for Human Coronavirus OC43
1 Jan 1993
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Human coronaviruses are associated with acute respiratory and enteric disease in man as such their target cells are probably the epithelial cells lining the respiratory and enteric tract. Attachment of virus to specific receptors on the cell surface is a major determinant of virus tropism in pathogenesis (1). Recently, aminopeptidase-N was identified as a cell receptor for the 229e coronavirus (2). Cell...
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