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Altered receptor specificity and fusion activity of the haemagglutinin contribute to high virulence of a mouse-adapted influenza A virus
19 Jan 2012
Abstract excerpt
The viral haemagglutinin (HA) and the viral polymerase complex determine the replication fitness of a highly virulent variant of influenza A virus strain A/PR/8/34 (designated hvPR8) and its high pathogenicity in mice. We report here that the HA of the hvPR8 differs from the HA of a low virulent strain (lvPR8) by the efficiency of receptor binding and membrane fusion. hvPR8 bound to 2,6-linked as well as...
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