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Role of positive selection pressure on the evolution of H5N1 hemagglutinin.
Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics - 1 Jun 2009
Duvvuri Venkata R S K, Duvvuri Bhargavi, Cuff Wilfred R, Wu Gillian E, Wu Jianhong
Abstract excerpt
The surface glycoprotein hemagglutinin (HA) helps the influenza A virus to evade the host immune system by antigenic variation and is a major driving force for viral evolution. In this study, the selection pressure on HA of H5N1 influenza A virus was analyzed using bioinformatics algorithms. Most of the identified positive selection (PS) sites were found to be within or adjacent to epitope sites. Some of the...
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