Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Atomic structures of Coxsackievirus A6 and its complex with a neutralizing antibody

  • Longfa Xu,
  • Qingbing Zheng,
  • Shaowei Li,
  • Maozhou He,
  • Yangtao Wu,
  • Yongchao Li,
  • Rui Zhu,
  • Hai Yu,
  • Qiyang Hong,
  • Jie Jiang,
  • Zizhen Li,
  • Shuxuan Li,
  • Huan Zhao,
  • Lisheng Yang,
  • Wangheng Hou,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Xiangzhong Ye,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Timothy S. Baker,
  • Tong Cheng,
  • Z. Hong Zhou,
  • Xiaodong Yan,
  • Ningshao Xia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00477-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Coxsackievirus A6 (CVA6) causes hand, foot and mouth disease in children. Here the authors present the CVA6 procapsid and A-particle cryo-EM structures and identify an immune-dominant neutralizing epitope, which can be exploited for vaccine development.