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Long-range effects on the binding of the influenza HA to receptors are mediated by changes in the stability of a metastable HA conformation.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 20 Sept 2002
Shental-Bechor Dalit, Danieli Tsafi, Henis Yoav, Ben-Tal Nir
Abstract excerpt
X-ray studies show that influenza hemagglutinin (HA) forms an elongated structure connecting the influenza virus at one end to cell-surface receptors at the other. At neutral pH, the 20 N-terminal residues of HA2-referred to as the fusion peptide-are buried in a hydrophobic pocket, about 100 A aw...
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