To date no receptor has been assigned for non-enveloped bluetongue virus. To determine if the outermost spike-like VP2 protein is responsible for host cell attachment via interaction with sialic acids, we first generated a protein-based VP2-nanoparticle, for the multivalent presentation of recombinant VP2 protein.
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