Influenza PB1-F2 protein and viral fitness
…is related to PB1 of H1N2 and H3N2 swine viruses from 1998 and human H3N2 viruses. Curiously, all the relatives of the 2009 H1N1 strain in swine and in humans…
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A Viral Battle in the Rice Field
…some viruses that infect rice plants have evolved strategies that undermine the plant’s indirect defenses and ensure the viruses’ own viability and transmission. The researchers show that rice stripe virus…
Pangolins and the origin of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
…of SARS-CoV-2 compared with sequence from the bat virus RaTG13, the most closely related virus. The SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein binds ACE2 with high affinity, an outcome not predicted by computational…
Ancient proteins block modern viruses
…from contemporary viruses, and so the ancient thioredoxin does not work for modern viruses. Today’s thioredoxin could change so that it would not support T7 replication – as long as…
A single amino acid change switches avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9 viruses to human receptors
…viruses prefer to attach to sialic acids linked to the second sugar molecule via alpha-2,6 linkages, while avian influenza viruses prefer to bind to alpha-2,3 linked sialic acids. (In the…
TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study
…rugby, cricket, tennis and soccer. When he was 16, he spent five days in western Ireland on a hiking and sailing trip with high school classmates. It was February, damp…