UniProt functional annotation for Q9IH62

UniProt code: Q9IH62.

Organism: Nipah virus.
Taxonomy: Viruses; Riboviria; Orthornavirae; Negarnaviricota; Haploviricotina; Monjiviricetes; Mononegavirales; Paramyxoviridae; Orthoparamyxovirinae; Henipavirus.
 
Function: Interacts with host ephrinB2/EFNB2 or ephrin B3/EFNB3 to provide virion attachment to target cell. This attachment induces virion internalization predominantly through clathrin-mediated endocytosis. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:15961384, ECO:0000269|PubMed:17470910}.
 
Subunit: Interacts with host EFNB2 and host EFNB3. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:16007075, ECO:0000269|PubMed:16477309}.
Subcellular location: Virion membrane {ECO:0000305}; Single-pass type II membrane protein {ECO:0000305}. Host cell membrane {ECO:0000305}; Single-pass type II membrane protein {ECO:0000305}.
Similarity: Belongs to the paramyxoviruses hemagglutinin-neuraminidase family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.