The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

The nationwide spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, also known as avian or bird flu, has many in Illinois ...

The nationwide spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, also known as avian or bird ... “The virus interacts with specific sialic acid receptors on the surfaces of cells, and those receptors ...

Introduction: The H9N2 avian influenza virus is widely disseminated in poultry ... simulations were used to analyze the interactions between the HA protein and sialic acid receptors. Our findings ...

Annually, the influenza virus causes 500,000 deaths worldwide ... During viral replication, NA removes sialic acid from cellular glycoproteins and glycolipids, as well as from both viral glycoproteins ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled “A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors”.

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Collaboration Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Light-Electricity-Heat Energy-Converting ...

The article investigates the complex mechanisms through which the H5N1 avian influenza virus (AIV ... that H5N1 hemagglutinin exhibits a strong binding affinity for sialic acid receptors present in ...

CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007 (AP), India. The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for ...

One of the most prevalent forms of sialic acids is Neu5Ac, which serves as a receptor for some viruses like influenza and as an energy source for enteropathogenic bacteria like Salmonella enterica (S.