Researchers found a protein that's essential for an enterovirus to enter human cells. Although not the infamous example—that title goes to poliovirus—other enteroviruses such as enterovirus D68 can ...

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 ...

They coined the term "receptor-mediated endocytosis" to ... of viruses to the story of endocytosis. How were these viruses using the cell's endocytic pathway? The first step for a virus to invade ...

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

NIH said that the reason bird flu viruses have not regularly spread to people is that the human upper respiratory tract does not have the same type of cell receptors found in birds that are needed ...

Aa Aa Aa A diverse range of microbes, including viruses ... For example, membrane receptors bind and respond to specific molecules outside the cell, such as hormones, neurotransmitters, the ...

The cells are covered in sialic receptors that are able to bind viruses, thereby locking them and preventing them from replicating. Dr Donald Tomalia, Scientific Director, reported their findings at a ...

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 ...

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 ...