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A Secondary Sialic Acid Binding Site on Influenza Virus Neuraminidase: Fact or Fiction?

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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2012 Jan 26. doi: 10.1002/anie.201108245. [Epub ahead of print]
A Secondary Sialic Acid Binding Site on Influenza Virus Neuraminidase: Fact or Fiction?
Lai JC, Garcia JM, Dyason JC, B?hm R, Madge PD, Rose FJ, Nicholls JM, Peiris JS, Haselhorst T, von Itzstein M.
Source

Hong Kong University-Pasteur Research Centre, SAR (China).
Abstract

One flu over the cuckoo's nest: The biological significance of a secondary sialic acid binding site on influenza virus neuraminidase remains elusive. On blocking the active site influenza-virus-containing virus-like particles with oseltamivir carboxylate, binding to α(2,3)-sialyllactose is still detected. Thus the sialyllactose must bind at a secondary sialic acid binding site (see structures: docking study of α(2,3)-sialyllactose in the secondary binding site of avian flu neuraminidase).

Copyright ? 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

PMID:
22281708
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22281708
 
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