The murine gammaherpesvirus-68 gp150 acts as an immunogenic decoy to limit virion neutralization.

Herpesviruses maintain long-term infectivity without marked antigenic variation. They must therefore evade neutralization by other means. Immune sera block murine gammaherpesvirus-68 (MHV-68) infection of fibroblasts, but fail to block and even enhance its infection of IgG Fc receptor-bearing cells,...

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Main Authors: Laurent Gillet, Janet S May, Susanna Colaco, Philip G Stevenson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000705&type=printable
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