Article
N-glycolylneuraminic acid binding of avian H7 influenza A viruses
2020-12-21
Abstract excerpt
Influenza A viruses initiate infection by binding to glycans with terminal sialic acids present on the cell surface. Hosts of influenza A viruses variably express two major forms of sialic acid, N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) and N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc). NeuGc is produced in the majority of mammals including horses, pigs, and mice, but is absent in humans, ferrets, and birds. Intriguingly, the only know...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4b156477-1074-53c5-9081-80c6ea853574
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.12.21.423767
