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Structural Basis for a Switch in Receptor Binding Specificity of Two H5N1 Hemagglutinin Mutants.
Cell reports - 24 Nov 2015
Zhu Xueyong, Viswanathan Karthik, Raman Rahul, Yu Wenli, Sasisekharan Ram, Wilson Ian A
Abstract excerpt
Avian H5N1 influenza viruses continue to spread in wild birds and domestic poultry with sporadic infection in humans. Receptor binding specificity changes are a prerequisite for H5N1 viruses and other zoonotic viruses to be transmitted among humans. Previous reported hemagglutinin (HA) mutants from ferret-transmissible H5N1 viruses of A/Vietnam/1203/2004 and A/Indonesia/5/2005 showed slightly increased, but still...
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