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SUBMITTER: Benton DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6176637 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180917 40
Viruses with membranes fuse them with cellular membranes, to transfer their genomes into cells at the beginning of infection. For Influenza virus, the membrane glycoprotein involved in fusion is the hemagglutinin (HA), the 3D structure of which is known from X-ray crystallographic studies. The soluble ectodomain fragments used in these studies lacked the "membrane anchor" portion of the molecule. Since this region has a role in membrane fusion, we have determined its structure by analyzing the i ...[more]