LDLR and infection: To investigate the potential of solubleLDLR (sLDLR) as a molecular decoy to inhibit CCHFV infections, we added varyingconcentrations of sLDLR to VSV-CCHF_G or CCHFV for 30 min before cell infection.sLDLR is a one-chain LDLR Ala22­Arg788 fragment.