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Modifications to the hemagglutinin cleavage site control the virulence of a neurotropic H1N1 influenza virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2010
Sun Xiangjie, Tse Longping V, Ferguson A Damon, Whittaker Gary R
Abstract excerpt
A key determinant of influenza virus pathogenesis is mutation in the proteolytic cleavage site of the hemagglutinin (HA). Typically, low-pathogenicity forms of influenza virus are cleaved by trypsin-like proteases, whereas highly pathogenic forms are cleaved by different proteases (e.g., furin). Influenza virus A/WSN/33 (WSN) is a well-studied H1N1 strain that is trypsin independent in vitro and has the ability...
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