The binding of influenza virus to avian (3′-SLN, red symbols and lines) and human (6′-SLN, blue symbols and lines) receptor analogues monitored by biolayer interferometry 26.The graphs show ...

Modest changes in the 1918 flu virus's hemagglutinin receptor binding site -- a molecular structure critical for the spread of infection -- stopped viral transmission in ferrets, according to a ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able to bind to human receptors. This finding underscores that certain bird ...

Better receptor binding doesn’t necessarily cause disease on its own. Several other factors are important, such as the virus’s ability to replicate and proliferate in the body. But attaching ...

Modest changes in the 1918 flu virus's hemagglutinin receptor binding site -- a molecular structure critical for the spread of infection -- stopped viral transmission in ferrets, according to a ...

Diversity of Functionally Permissive Sequences in the Receptor-Binding Site of Influenza Hemagglutinin. Cell Host & Microbe , 2017; 21 (6): 742 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2017.05.011 Cite This Page : ...

The mutated hemagglutinin’s binding affinity to human-type receptors was weak, but Paulson noted that this was also the case when the H1N1 virus that caused the 2009 swine flu pandemic first ...

Despite the predominance of avian-type receptor specificity in bovine H5 HA, a study demonstrated that a single Gln226Leu mutation can switch receptor binding to human-type receptors. While weak ...

On April 25, Rod Daniels, the deputy director of the World Influenza Centre in London, was at a meeting in Germany when he received a... Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV Subscribe Subscribe ...

(Modest changes in the 1918 flu virus's hemagglutinin receptor binding site—a molecular structure critical for the spread of infection—stopped viral transmission in ferrets, according to a new ...