| Literature DB >> 12753908 |
Tadanobu Takahashi1, Takashi Suzuki, Kazuya I-P Jwa Hidari, Daisei Miyamoto, Yasuo Suzuki.
Abstract
Four human pandemic influenza A virus strains isolated in 1957 and 1968, but not most of the epidemic strains isolated after 1968, possess sialidase activity under low-pH conditions. Here, we used cell-expressed neuraminidases (NAs) to determine the region of the N2 NA that is associated with low-pH stability of sialidase activity. We found that consensus amino acid regions responsible for low-pH stability did not exist in pandemic NAs but that two amino acid substitutions in the low-pH-stable A/Hong Kong/1/68 (H3N2) NA and a single substitution in the low-pH-unstable A/Texas/68 (H2N2) NA resulted in significant change in low-pH stability.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12753908 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00403-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124