| Literature DB >> 26656694 |
Yuhai Bi1, Haixia Xiao2, Quanjiao Chen3, Yan Wu4, Lifeng Fu4, Chuansong Quan5, Gary Wong4, Jun Liu6, Joel Haywood4, Yingxia Liu7, Boping Zhou7, Jinghua Yan4, Wenjun Liu8, George F Gao9.
Abstract
The neuraminidase stalk of the newly emerged H7N9 influenza virus possesses a 5-amino-acid deletion. This study focuses on characterizing the biological functions of H7N9 with varied neuraminidase stalk lengths. Results indicate that the 5-amino-acid deletion had no impact on virus infectivity or replication in vitro or in vivo compared to that of a virus with a full-length stalk, but enhanced virulence in mice was observed for H7N9 encoding a 19- to 20-amino-acid deletion, suggesting that N9 stalk length impacts virulence in mammals, as N1 stalk length does.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26656694 PMCID: PMC4734013 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02553-15
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103