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ArticleScientific reports2019

Structures and functions linked to genome-wide adaptation of human influenza A viruses.

Thorsten R Klingen, Jens Loers, Stephanie Stanelle-Bertram, Gülsah Gabriel, Alice C McHardy

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Thorsten R KlingenDepartment for Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany.
Jens LoersDepartment for Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany.
Stephanie Stanelle-BertramHeinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany.
Gülsah GabrielHeinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany.
Alice C McHardyDepartment for Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany. Alice.McHardy@helmholtz-hzi.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-3430
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research · DELeibniz Institute of Virology (LIV) · DEGerman Center for Infection Research · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human influenza A viruses elicit short-term respiratory infections with considerable mortality and morbidity. While H3N2 viruses circulate for more than 50 years, the recent introduction of pH1N1 viruses presents an excellent opportunity for a comparative analysis of the genome-wide evolutionary forces acting on both subtypes. Here, we inferred patches of sites relevant for adaptation, i.e. being under positive selection, on eleven viral protein structures, from all available data since 1968 and correlated these with known functional properties. Overall, pH1N1 have more patches than H3N2 viruses, especially in the viral polymerase complex, while antigenic evolution is more apparent for H3N2 viruses. In both subtypes, NS1 has the highest patch and patch site frequency, indicating that NS1-mediated viral attenuation of host inflammatory responses is a continuously intensifying process, elevated even in the longtime-circulating subtype H3N2. We confirmed the resistance-causing effects of two pH1N1 changes against oseltamivir in NA activity assays, demonstrating the value of the resource for discovering functionally relevant changes. Our results represent an atlas of protein regions and sites with links to host adaptation, antiviral drug resistance and immune evasion for both subtypes for further study.

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Drug Resistance, ViralEvolution, MolecularGenome, ViralHumansInfluenza A Virus, H1N1 SubtypeInfluenza A Virus, H3N2 SubtypeInfluenza, HumanOseltamivirRespiratory Tract InfectionsViral Nonstructural ProteinsVirus ReplicationOseltamivirViral Nonstructural Proteins

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PMID31000776
PMCPMC6472403
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