Sentences with phrase «onto hemagglutinin»

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A designer protein (brown and orange) fits snugly on top of the influenza virus's hemagglutinin protein (green), which helps the virus latch onto and infect cells.

These triple - mutant H7 hemagglutinins also successfully latched onto cells in samples of human trachea tissue.

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.

Now, Skehel, along with colleagues at Harvard, Yale, and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has used that sequence to build the virus's hemagglutinin (HA)-- a protein that latches onto receptors on the host cell surface — and determine its structure.