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Single amino acid substitutions in the hemagglutinin can alter the host range and receptor binding properties of H1 strains of influenza A virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1991
Aytay S, Schulze I T
Abstract excerpt
We have previously characterized an influenza A (H1N1) virus which has host-dependent growth and receptor binding properties and have shown that a mutation which removes an oligosaccharide from the tip of the hemagglutinin (HA) by changing Asn-129 to Asp permits this virus to grow to high titer in MDBK cells, (C. M. Deom, A. J. Caton, and I. T. Schulze, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83:3771-3775, 1986). We have now...
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