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The inherent mutational tolerance and antigenic evolvability of influenza hemagglutinin.
eLife - 8 Jul 2014
Thyagarajan Bargavi, Bloom Jesse D
Abstract excerpt
Influenza is notable for its evolutionary capacity to escape immunity targeting the viral hemagglutinin. We used deep mutational scanning to examine the extent to which a high inherent mutational tolerance contributes to this antigenic evolvability. We created mutant viruses that incorporate most of the ≈10(4) amino-acid mutations to hemagglutinin from A/WSN/1933 (H1N1) influenza. After passaging these viruses in...
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