Fusing structure and function: A structural view of the herpesvirus entry machinery

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 369-381

  Connolly, Sarah A ^a   Jackson, Julia O ^a   Jardetzky, Theodore S ^b   Longnecker, Richard ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPHORIN B; GLYCOPHORIN C; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN D; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 350; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL GROWTH; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES VIRUS; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; VIRUS ATTACHMENT; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS INTERNALIZATION;

HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 79954617024     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2548     Document Type: Review

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