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Dynamics of glycoprotein charge in the evolutionary history of human influenza.
PloS one - 30 Dec 2010
Arinaminpathy Nimalan, Grenfell Bryan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Influenza viruses show a significant capacity to evade host immunity; this is manifest both as large occasional jumps in the antigenic phenotype of viral surface molecules and in gradual antigenic changes leading to annual influenza epidemics in humans. Recent mouse studies show that avidity for host cells can play an important role in polyclonal antibody escape, and further that electrostatic charge...
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