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A conditional-lethal murine coronavirus mutant that fails to incorporate the spike glycoprotein into assembled virions.
Virus research - 1 Dec 1995
Ricard C S, Koetzner C A, Sturman L S, Masters P S
Abstract excerpt
The coronavirus spike glycoprotein (S) mediates both the attachment of virus to the host cell receptor and membrane fusion. We describe here the characterization of a temperature-sensitive mutant of the coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus A59 (MHV-A59) having multiple S protein-related defects. The most remarkable of these was that the mutant, designated Albany 18 (Alb18), assembled virions devoid of the S...
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