Measles virus, a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide, predominantly infects immune cells using signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) as a cellular receptor.

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Another possible mechanism by which the virus enters the cell is believed to be receptor-mediated endocytosis, after which the viral RNA is released into the cellular cytoplasm.

The measles virus is an enveloped virus bearing a lipid bilayer. The bilayer holds the receptor binding hemagglutinin (H) protein and the fusion (F) protein. For infection to happen, the H protein ...

Due to their simple structure, viruses cannot ... to help it reproduce by multiplying the virus' genetic material and proteins. Inside their cellular hosts, viruses can create an enormous number ...

Newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial population.

We can even tag multiple things (such as virus and cellular components ... Evaluating the structure of the exterior of virus particles is also a great tool for identifying which antibodies ...

The work provides a detailed three-dimensional picture of the virus's polymerase and its key features. Understanding the ...

Research interests: assembly and structure determination of viruses, virus-receptor interaction, antivirals, neutralizing antibodies, electron cryo-microscopy, image processing, crystallography. Sarah ...

Scientists have unveiled insights into how HIV-1, the virus responsible for AIDS, skillfully hijacks cellular machinery ... discovery was an intricate RNA structure near the critical "frameshift ...

Knowing the structure of the protein is necessary to figure out how the immune system responds to the virus. So how do researchers capture the structure of single protein on a shape-shifting virus?