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SUBMITTER: Jayaraman A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3374573 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jayaraman Akila A Koh Xiaoying X Li Jing J Raman Rahul R Viswanathan Karthik K Shriver Zachary Z Sasisekharan Ram R
The Biochemical journal 20120601 3
The glycoprotein HA (haemagglutinin) on the surface of influenza A virus plays a central role in recognition and binding to specific host cell-surface glycan receptors and in fusion of viral membrane to the host nuclear membrane during viral replication. Given the abundance of HA on the viral surface, this protein is also the primary target for host innate and adaptive immune responses. Although addition of glycosylation sites on HA are a part of viral evolution to evade the host immune response ...[more]