Spiking the MERS-coronavirus receptor.

ABSTRACT: A novel coronavirus, the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, recently emerged through zoonotic transmission, causing a severe lower respiratory tract infection in humans. In two recent papers, one published in Cell Research, the crystal structure of the viral receptor-binding domain in complex with the host CD26/dipeptidyl peptidase 4 receptor has now been characterized.

SUBMITTER: Bosch BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3760624 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature