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SUBMITTER: Wang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2674115 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Hongjie H Tuve Sebastian S Erdman Dean D DD Lieber André A
Virology 20090501 2
Recently, cases of severe respiratory illness in military and civilian populations have been associated with a new genomic variant of adenovirus (Ad) serotype 14, designated Ad14a. Compared to the Ad14 reference strain (de Wit), this new virus had a deletion of two amino acid residues in the fiber protein knob. Here we tested whether this mutation changed receptor usage of Ad14a compared to Ad14-de Wit. Competition studies with radio-labeled viruses revealed that both Ad14-de Wit and Ad14a used ...[more]