Showing posts with label RBD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RBD. Show all posts
Friday, January 18, 2013

EuroSurveillance: Revisiting The D222G Mutation In A/H1N1pdm09

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    Flu Virus binding to Receptor Cells – Credit CDC       # 6865   One of the unresolved  mysteries of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Study: Dual Receptor Binding H5N1 Viruses In China

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  ( Very Simplified Illustration of RBDs ) # 6238     Human adapted influenza viruses have an RBD - Receptor Binding Domain ...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Virology Journal: Receptor Cells In Minor Poultry Species

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      # 5136     Constant readers of this blog are aware that avian influenza strains bind preferentially to the kind of recept...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Study: The Continuing Evolution Of Avian H9N2

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      # 5058     When it comes to avian influenzas, H5N1 gets the lion’s share of our attention, but it isn’t the only avian flu...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

D222G And Deep Lung Infections

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      # 5002       This morning we’ve a joint study from Imperial College London and the University of Marburg that may shed...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Master Of Its Binding Domain

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    # 4505     With one pandemic virus still smoldering in the background, and another one – H5N1 – potentially still in the wing...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Study: H5N1 Can Replicate In Human Gut

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    # 4417     This morning a brief, but fascinating tidbit from The Journal of Infectious Diseases where scientists have demon...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Mixing Vessels For Influenza

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      # 4228     My thanks to Helen Branswell for alerting me ( via her Twitter feed ) to this article in The Economist about ...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Study: H1N1 Receptor Binding

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    # 3714     An interesting study in the current issue of Nature Biotechnology which helps explain why, in a small percentage o...