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Punctuated evolution of influenza virus neuraminidase (A/H1N1) under opposing migration and vaccination pressures.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2014
Phillips J C
Abstract excerpt
Influenza virus contains two highly variable envelope glycoproteins, hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). The structure and properties of HA, which is responsible for binding the virus to the cell that is being infected, change significantly when the virus is transmitted from avian or swine species to humans. Here we focus first on the simpler problem of the much smaller human individual evolutionary amino...
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