The paramyxovirus family contains many common human pathogenic viruses, including
measles, mumps, the parainfluenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus, human …

Highlights•Most paramyxoviruses require attachment and fusion (F) proteins for cell
entry.•Competing 'clamp'and 'provocateur'models have been proposed as entry …

Paramyxoviruses are a family of negative sense RNA viruses whose members cause
serious diseases in humans, such as measles virus, mumps virus and respiratory syncytial …

Paramyxoviruses—including important pathogens like parainfluenza, measles, and Nipah
viruses—use a receptor binding protein [hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) for …

Highlights•Cryo-electron tomography reconstructions of paramyxovirus particles have
yielded novel insight into virion assembly and organization.•Newcastle disease virus matrix …

Research in the last decade has uncovered many new paramyxoviruses, airborne agents
that cause epidemic diseases in animals including humans. Most paramyxoviruses enter …

Respirovirus 3 is a leading cause of severe acute respiratory infections in vulnerable human
populations. Entry into host cells is facilitated by the attachment glycoprotein and the fusion …

Summary Hendra (HeV) and Nipah (NiV) viruses are emerging zoonotic pathogens in the
Henipavirus genus causing outbreaks of disease with very high case fatality rates. Here, we …

The Paramyxoviridae include some of the great and ubiquitous disease-causing viruses of
humans and animals. In most paramyxoviruses, two viral membrane glycoproteins, fusion …

Membrane fusion is essential for entry of the biomedically-important paramyxoviruses into
their host cells (viral-cell fusion), and for syncytia formation (cell-cell fusion), often induced …