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The N-glycan of the SCR 2 region is essential for membrane cofactor protein (CD46) to function as a measles virus receptor.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 1996
Maisner A, Alvarez J, Liszewski M K, Atkinson D J, Atkinson J P, Herrler G
Abstract excerpt
Membrane cofactor protein (MCP) (CD46), a complement-regulatory protein, serves as a cellular receptor for measles virus. Its amino-terminal portion is composed of four short consensus repeats (SCR), three of which (SCR1, SCR2, and SCR4) carry an N-linked oligosaccharide. In order to determine th...
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