Rotavirus articles within Nature

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• Article | 13 January 2021

  Functional refolding of the penetration protein on a non-enveloped virus

  Electron cryomicroscopy and cryotomography studies reveal that rotaviruses attach to a target cell through the outer-layer protein VP4, which—following cleavage—rearranges to enable perforation of the membrane and delivery of the viral genome into the host cell.

  • Tobias Herrmann
  • , Raúl Torres
  •  & Stephen C. Harrison

• Letter | 15 April 2012

  Cell attachment protein VP8* of a human rotavirus specifically interacts with A-type histo-blood group antigen

  This crystallographic study shows the attachment of human rotavirus VP8* to histo blood group A antigen, and suggests how changes within the structure of VP8* could allow switching from sialylated to non-sialylated glycan receptor.

  • Liya Hu
  • , Sue E. Crawford
  •  & B. V. Venkataram Prasad

• News | 27 September 2011

  Vaccine campaign to target deadly childhood diarrhoea

  Programme to guard against second-biggest killer of under-fives rolls out across Africa.

  • Declan Butler