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A virus with a sweet tooth: visualizing MERS-coronavirus attachment to host sialosides
Deadly coronaviruses have emerged recently and no vaccines or therapeutics are available to combat them. To understand how these viruses attach to and enter our cells, we determined the structure of the molecule initiating infection in complex with various sialic acid derivatives.