Sentences with phrase «called hemagglutinin»

The 11 - page study, led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Tokyo, describes how the research group stitched a mutated version of a key viral protein called hemagglutinin from the bird flu virus known as H5N1 onto the human H1N1 virus that caused a relatively mild pandemic in 2009.

A glycoprotein on the virus's surface called hemagglutinin, which has 17 identified types (H1 - H17), determines how the virus sticks to and enters the host cell.

Kawaoka says he believes that the board's revised decision was influenced by a better understanding of the public - health implications of the work, which described the changes in a key viral protein called hemagglutinin that could make avian flu more transmissible among mammals.

Water used to boil potatoes would contain chemicals called hemagglutinins that disrupt red blood cell formation.

Not exact matches

The unaltered hemagglutinin is akin to a key that unlocks a so - called receptor molecule in cells lining the upper airways of humans and other mammals.

Using a crystal structure of a complex protein compound of botulinum neurotoxin, Rongsheng Jin, associate professor of physiology & biophysics at UC Irvine, and collaborators found that these compounds — called clostridial hemagglutinin (HA)-- bind with epithelial cell proteins in the intestines of patients, which initiates a process that disrupts the close intercellular seals so that the complex toxin molecules can slip through the epithelial barrier.

In flu surveillance, researchers look primarily for the genes encoding the virus's surface proteins, hemagglutinin and neuraminidase; if they sequence the so - called internal genes as well, they might detect new genes slipping into human virus strains in the run - up to a pandemic, they say.

The gene, called H5, is one of 16 subtypes of hemagglutinin, a protein that binds the avian influenza virus to the cells it infects.

And researchers were truly surprised to find genes that produce proteins called adhesins and hemagglutinins, substances that mediate cell invasion — and were previously found only in pathogens that attack animals.