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SUBMITTER: Kononchik JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3315796 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Virology journal 20110615
The study of alphavirus entry has been complicated by an inability to clearly identify a receptor and by experiments which only tangentially and indirectly examine the process, producing results that are difficult to interpret. The mechanism of entry has been widely accepted to be by endocytosis followed by acidification of the endosome resulting in virus membrane-endosome membrane fusion. This mechanism has come under scrutiny as better purification protocols and improved methods of analysis ha ...[more]