Volume 23, No 9, Sep 2013
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
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Volume 23 Issue 9, September 2013: 1069-1070
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Spiking the MERS-coronavirus receptor
Berend Jan Bosch1, V Stalin Raj2 and Bart L Haagmans2
1Virology Division, Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 3508 TD Utrecht, the Netherlands
2Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Correspondence: Bart L Haagmans(b.haagmans@erasmusmc.nl)
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.
10.1038/cr.2013.108
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