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ReviewVaccines2018

The Vestigial Esterase Domain of Haemagglutinin of H5N1 Avian Influenza A Virus: Antigenicity and Contribution to Viral Pathogenesis.

Zhiqiang Zheng, Subha Sankar Paul, Xiaobing Mo, Yu-Ren Adam Yuan, Yee-Joo Tan

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Review in Vaccines, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhiqiang ZhengDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System (NUHS), National University of Singapore, Singapore 117545, Singapore. miczz@nus.edu.sg.ORCID 0000-0003-1028-3246
Subha Sankar PaulDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System (NUHS), National University of Singapore, Singapore 117545, Singapore. subhasankarpaul@u.nus.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4764-6314
Xiaobing MoDepartment of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore117558, Singapore. mox@nus.edu.sg.
Yu-Ren Adam YuanDepartment of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore117558, Singapore. dbsyya@nus.edu.sg.
Yee-Joo TanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System (NUHS), National University of Singapore, Singapore 117545, Singapore. yee_joo_tan@nuhs.edu.sg.
National University of Singapore · SGAgency for Science, Technology and Research · SG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Initial attempts to develop monoclonal antibodies as therapeutics to resolve influenza infections focused mainly on searching for antibodies with the potential to neutralise the virus in vitro with classical haemagglutination inhibition and microneutralisation assays. This led to the identification of many antibodies that bind to the head domain of haemagglutinin (HA), which generally have potent neutralisation capabilities that block viral entry or viral membrane fusion. However, this class of antibodies has a narrow breadth of protection in that they are usually strain-specific. This led to the emphasis on stalk-targeting antibodies, which are able to bind a broad range of viral targets that span across different influenza subtypes. Recently, a third class of antibodies targeting the vestigial esterase (VE) domain have been characterised. In this review, we describe the key features of neutralising VE-targeting antibodies and compare them with head- and stalk-class antibodies.

Indexed as

antibody dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicityinfluenzaneutralising antibodiespH-induced conformational changesvestigial esterase

Identifiers

PMID30103381
PMCPMC6161130
OpenAlexW2811040385

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