The bat influenza A virus subtype H18N11 induces nanoscale MHCII clustering upon host cell attachment. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58834-y Cite This Page : ...

The alphaviruses the researchers studied, including eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE virus), have a history of causing deadly, if short-lived, outbreaks, but little is known about how the virus ...

Engineers and microbiologists have developed a simple model for virus-host cell interaction driven by Ebola's adhesion to cell surface receptors. The findings could provide new information to help ...

Discovering that ACE2 is the host cell receptor for NeoCoV and PDF-2180, which are closely related to the deadly human pathogen MERS-CoV, was totally unexpected and opens new avenues to prepare ...

In the present investigation, the researchers evaluated the MERS-CoV-related viruses such as NeoCoV and PDF-2180-CoV to identify their functional receptors for host entry.

Discovering that ACE2 is the host cell receptor for NeoCoV and PDF-2180, ... Citation: Bat virus receptor studies vital to predict spillover risk (2022, December 7) ...

In bats, two close virus relatives of the coronavirus MERS-CoV, the cause of Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome, use the ACE2 receptor as an entry point into bat cells. These receptors have some ...

While most merbecoviruses appear unlikely to be able to infect humans, HKU5 viruses— which have been found across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East—were shown to use the host receptor ...

The study authors focused on altering one of H5N1’s surface proteins, hemagglutinin, which contains the binding site that allows the virus to latch onto host cell receptors and kick-start infection.

With the help of their new development, they have also analyzed how novel influenza viruses use alternative receptors to enter target cells. The results were published in two papers in the journal ...

A novel microscopy method enables detailed analysis of influenza virus interactions with host cells, revealing that some strains, such as H18N11, use MHC class II protein receptors instead of ...