Structural Basis for a Switch in Receptor Binding Specificity of Two H5N1 Hemagglutinin Mutants.
Zhu, X., Viswanathan, K., Raman, R., Yu, W., Sasisekharan, R., Wilson, I.A.(2015) Cell Rep 13: 1683-1691
- PubMed: 26586437 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.10.027
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5E2Y, 5E2Z, 5E30, 5E32, 5E34, 5E35 - PubMed Abstract: 
Avian H5N1 influenza viruses continue to spread in wild birds and domestic poultry with sporadic infection in humans. Receptor binding specificity changes are a prerequisite for H5N1 viruses and other zoonotic viruses to be transmitted among humans. Previous reported hemagglutinin (HA) mutants from ferret-transmissible H5N1 viruses of A/Vietnam/1203/2004 and A/Indonesia/5/2005 showed slightly increased, but still very weak, binding to human receptors ...