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SUBMITTER: Hu L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4589887 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hu Liya L Ramani Sasirekha S Czako Rita R Sankaran Banumathi B Yu Ying Y Smith David F DF Cummings Richard D RD Estes Mary K MK Venkataram Prasad B V BV
Nature communications 20150930
Strain-dependent variation of glycan recognition during initial cell attachment of viruses is a critical determinant of host specificity, tissue-tropism and zoonosis. Rotaviruses (RVs), which cause life-threatening gastroenteritis in infants and children, display significant genotype-dependent variations in glycan recognition resulting from sequence alterations in the VP8* domain of the spike protein VP4. The structural basis of this genotype-dependent glycan specificity, particularly in human R ...[more]