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Structures of receptor complexes formed by hemagglutinins from the Asian Influenza pandemic of 1957.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Oct 2009
Liu Junfeng, Stevens David J, Haire Lesley F, Walker Philip A, Coombs Peter J, Russell Rupert J, Gamblin Steven J, Skehel John J
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The viruses that caused the three influenza pandemics of the twentieth century in 1918, 1957, and 1968 had distinct hemagglutinin receptor binding glycoproteins that had evolved the capacity to recognize human cell receptors. We have determined the structure of the H2 hemagglutinin from the secon...
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