Viral Entry into Host Cells

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pöhlmann, Stefan (Editor), Simmons, Graham (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 790
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Cell Biology.

For a virus to invade a host cell it needs to penetrate the physical barrier imposed by the plasma membrane. Viruses have evolved specialized surface proteins to meet this challenge. These proteins facilitate delivery of the viral genetic information into the host cell by either fusing the viral env...