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Editor, Senior Moderator
Genet Mol Res. 2012 Mar 16;11(1):636-43.
Hemagglutinin protein of Asian strains of human influenza virus A H1N1 binds to sialic acid - a major component of human airway receptors.
Chua KH, Chai HC.
Source
Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia khchua@um.edu.my.
Abstract
Hemagglutinin (HA) protein plays an important role in binding the influenza virus to infected cells and therefore mediates infection. Deposited HA sequences of 86 Asian strains of influenza A (H1N1) viruses during the first outbreak were obtained from the NCBI database and compared. Interaction of the HA protein of influenza A (H1N1) virus with the human sialic acid receptor was also studied using bioinformatics. Overall, not more than three single-point amino acid variants/changes were observed in the HA protein region of influenza A (H1N1) virus from Asian countries when a selected group sequence comparison was made. The bioinformatics study showed that the HA protein of influenza A (H1N1) binds to the sialic acid receptor in human airway receptors, possibly key to air-borne infection in humans.
PMID:
22535399
[PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22535399
Hemagglutinin protein of Asian strains of human influenza virus A H1N1 binds to sialic acid - a major component of human airway receptors.
Chua KH, Chai HC.
Source
Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia khchua@um.edu.my.
Abstract
Hemagglutinin (HA) protein plays an important role in binding the influenza virus to infected cells and therefore mediates infection. Deposited HA sequences of 86 Asian strains of influenza A (H1N1) viruses during the first outbreak were obtained from the NCBI database and compared. Interaction of the HA protein of influenza A (H1N1) virus with the human sialic acid receptor was also studied using bioinformatics. Overall, not more than three single-point amino acid variants/changes were observed in the HA protein region of influenza A (H1N1) virus from Asian countries when a selected group sequence comparison was made. The bioinformatics study showed that the HA protein of influenza A (H1N1) binds to the sialic acid receptor in human airway receptors, possibly key to air-borne infection in humans.
PMID:
22535399
[PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22535399