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HveA (herpesvirus entry mediator A), a coreceptor for herpes simplex virus entry, also participates in virus-induced cell fusion.
Journal of virology - 1 Jul 1998
Terry-Allison T, Montgomery R I, Whitbeck J C, Xu R, Cohen G H, Eisenberg R J, Spear P G
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a cell surface protein that can serve as coreceptor for herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) entry, herpesvirus entry mediator (previously designated HVEM but renamed HveA), also mediates HSV-1-induced cell-cell fusion. We found that transfection of DNA from KOS-804, a previously described HSV-1 syncytial (Syn) strain whose Syn mutation was mapped to an amino acid...
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