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ArticleJournal of virology2018

Structural and Molecular Characterization of the Hemagglutinin from the Fifth-Epidemic-Wave A(H7N9) Influenza Viruses.

Hua Yang, Paul J Carney, Jessie C Chang, Zhu Guo, James Stevens

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Article in Journal of virology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hua YangInfluenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Paul J CarneyInfluenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Jessie C ChangInfluenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Zhu GuoInfluenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
James StevensInfluenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA fwb4@cdc.gov.
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases · USCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · US

Funding

Structural Basis of Immune Recognition of Glycosylated AntigensU54GM062116 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI SASISEKHARAN, RAM · 2001 to 2010
$80.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM062116
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The avian influenza A(H7N9) virus continues to cause human infections in China and is a major ongoing public health concern. Five epidemic waves of A(H7N9) infection have occurred since 2013, and the recent fifth epidemic wave saw the emergence of two distinct lineages with elevated numbers of human infection cases and broader geographic distribution of viral diseases compared to the first four epidemic waves. Moreover, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H7N9) viruses were also isolated during the fifth epidemic wave. Here, we present a detailed structural and biochemical analysis of the surface hemagglutinin (HA) antigen from viruses isolated during this recent epidemic wave. Results highlight that, compared to the 2013 virus HAs, the fifth-wave virus HAs remained a weak binder to human glycan receptor analogs. We also studied three mutations, V177K-K184T-G219S, that were recently reported to switch a 2013 A(H7N9) HA to human-type receptor specificity. Our results indicate that these mutations could also switch the H7 HA receptor preference to a predominantly human binding specificity for both fifth-wave H7 HAs analyzed in this study.

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ChinaEpidemicsHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusHumansInfluenza A Virus, H7N9 SubtypeInfluenza, HumanModels, MolecularMutationPhylogenyPolysaccharidesProtein BindingProtein Conformationhemagglutinin, avian influenza A virusHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusPolysaccharidesA(H7N9)glycan arrayhemagglutininreceptor binding

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PMID29848588
PMCPMC6069181
OpenAlexW2805824753

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