Researchers found a protein that's essential for an enterovirus to enter human cells. Although not the infamous example—that ...

Viruses tend to attack different parts of the body, depending on whether they can bind to these guys. Receptors are proteins found along the outside of a cell, used to communicate with the rest of ...

New research shows how small shifts in the molecular makeup of a virus can profoundly alter its fate. These shifts could turn ...

HKU5-CoV-2 comes from the HKU5 coronavirus family and has a special feature, called a furin cleavage site, that helps it ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infects cells by binding its spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors. Blocking this interaction with inhibitors could ...

And so, without those receptors, we wouldn’t know the microbes ... A bacterium hides its DNA and RNA inside of itself. Viruses do the same thing; our cells do the same thing. And so, it was kind of ...

Many phylogenetically distant animal viruses, including the new coronavirus SARS-CoV ... This C-end Rule (CendR) motif is known to bind to neuropilin (NRP) receptors on the cell surface. NRPs are ...

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The first T-SIGn virus is NG-348, which is designed to ... and a membrane-anchored antibody fragment specific for the T cell receptor CD3 protein. When expressed together on the surface of NG ...