Cryo-electron microscopy structures of the SARS-CoV spike glycoprotein reveal a prerequisite conformational state for receptor binding.
Gui, M., Song, W., Zhou, H., Xu, J., Chen, S., Xiang, Y., Wang, X.(2017) Cell Res 27: 119-129
- PubMed: 28008928 
- DOI: 10.1038/cr.2016.152
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5WRG, 5XLR - PubMed Abstract: 
The global outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003 was caused by the infection of a new human coronavirus SARS-CoV. The infection of SARS-CoV is mediated mainly through the viral surface glycoproteins, which consist of S1 and S2 subunits and form trimer spikes on the envelope of the virions ...