Brief Communication abstract
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14, 1227 - 1228 (2007)
Published online: 18 November 2007 | doi:10.1038/nsmb1342
Structure of the measles virus hemagglutinin
Leremy A Colf1,2, Z Sean Juo1,2 & K Christopher Garcia1
Measles virus is a highly pathogenic virus that infects roughly 20 million people per year. We report here the crystal structure of the measles virus hemagglutinin, the surface glycoprotein responsible for the binding of measles virus to its host cell receptors. Although the protein lacks neuraminidase activity, its structure resembles a 'dead' neuraminidase fold, presenting spatially distinct receptor-binding sites for its receptors CD46 and SLAM.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Beckman Building B171, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
- These authors contributed equally to this work.
Correspondence to: K Christopher Garcia1 e-mail: kcgarcia@stanford.edu
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