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Avian-virus-like receptor specificity of the hemagglutinin impedes influenza virus replication in cultures of human airway epithelium.
Virology - 10 May 2007
Matrosovich Mikhail, Matrosovich Tatyana, Uhlendorff Jennifer, Garten Wolfgang, Klenk Hans-Dieter
Abstract excerpt
A non-optimal receptor-binding specificity of avian influenza viruses is believed to hamper their replication in humans; however, the magnitude of this restriction remains undefined. Here we generated recombinant viruses, R1 and R2, that differed solely by two amino acids in the receptor-binding site of their hemagglutinin (HA). R1 harbored the original HA of the pandemic human virus A/Hong Kong/1/68 (H3N2),...
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