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Shibo Jiang1,2, Runming Li3, Lanying Du4, Shuwen Liu5.
Abstract
Seasonal influenza epidemics and influenza pandemics caused by influenza A virus (IAV) has resulted in millions of deaths in the world. The development of anti-IAV vaccines and therapeutics is urgently needed for prevention and treatment of IAV infection and for controlling future influenza pandemics. Hemagglutinin (HA) of IAV plays a critical role in viral binding, fusion and entry, and contains the major neutralizing epitopes. Therefore, HA is an attractive target for developing anti-IAV drugs and vaccines. Here we have reviewed the recent progress in study of conformational changes of HA during viral fusion process and development of HA-based antiviral therapeutics and vaccines.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 21203946 PMCID: PMC4728157 DOI: 10.1007/s13238-010-0054-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Protein Cell ISSN: 1674-800X Impact factor: 14.870