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SUBMITTER: van Zeijl M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC521475 | biostudies-other | 1994 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19940201 3
Retrovirus infection is initiated by binding of the viral envelope glycoprotein to a cell-surface receptor. The envelope proteins of type C retroviruses of mammals demonstrate similarities in structural organization and protein sequence. These similarities suggest the possibility that retroviruses from different interference groups might use related proteins as receptors, despite the absence of any relationship between retrovirus receptors isolated to date. To investigate this possibility, we ha ...[more]