Reports that a team of researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, has confirmed the molecular structure of the avian influenza virus present in Hong Kong. Identification of the virus; Human infection from the virus; Transfer of the virus between humans....
In the study, the team describes the structure of the hemagglutinin (the influenza virus envelope protein) from the H1N1 swineflu virusthat triggered the pandemic in 2009 and is still circulating in the human population. The team then compared theswine fluhemagglutinin protein with a range of dif...
Researchers from Oxford University have worked out the molecular structure of a protein that is vital for survival of the flu virus. Recently published inNature, they used several different techniques to look at the arrangement of atoms within a protein that the human flu virus uses to make new...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Scientists in the United States for the first time mapped the 3D atomic structure of a family of viruses including measles, mumps and flu. The study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences described the 3D atomic structure of...
In addition to the protein coat, some viruses have specialized structures. For example, the flu virus has a membrane-like envelope around its capsid. These viruses are known as enveloped viruses. The envelope has both host cell and viral components and assists the virus in infecting its host....
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Recent 2009 flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1. The H1N1 virus has crossed species barrier to human and apparently acquired the capability to transmit this disease from human to human. The NP is a multifunctional protein that not only encapsi...
The N-terminal domain of the arenavirus L protein is an RNA endonuclease essential in mRNA transcription. PLoS Pathog. 6, e1001038 (2010). Article PubMed PubMed Central CAS Google Scholar Gogrefe, N., Reindl, S., Gunther, S. & Rosenthal, M. Structure of a functional cap-binding ...
These protons usually flow into the virus, making the interior more acidic. This acidity helps the virus to merge its lipid envelope with the membrane of a cellular compartment called an endosome, allowing it to release its DNA into the infected cell. Until now, most struct...
Flu viruses package essential functions into a small integral membrane protein known as M2. Such small membrane proteins represent major challenges for structural biology. A new study presented in this issue details the structure and functions of the influenza B M2 protein through the use of functio...