Antiviral adhesion molecular mechanisms for influenza: W. G. Laver's lifetime obsession
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Antiviral adhesion molecular mechanisms for influenza: W. G. Laver's lifetime obsession.
Infection by the influenza virus depends firstly on cell adhesion via the sialic-acid-binding viral surface protein, haemagglutinin, and secondly on the successful escape of progeny viruses from the host cell to enable the virus to spread to other cells. To achieve the latter, influenza uses another glycoprotein, the enzyme neuraminidase (NA), to cleave the sialic acid receptors from the surfac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0034