The surface of viruses includes many copies of one type of protein that binds, or adsorbs, specifically to multiple copies of a receptor protein on a host cell. This interaction determines the host range of a virus and begins the infection process (Figure 6-15).
Civil rights leader Andrew Young, left, and others on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel point in the direction where gunshots came from after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.
On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to the murder and was convicted shortly thereafter.