What Is Influenza Hemagglutinin?
Influenza hemagglutinin is a hemagglutinin found on the surface of influenza viruses. This hemagglutinin is an antigenic glycoprotein that binds the virus to infected cells.
Influenza hemagglutinin
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- Influenza hemagglutinin
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- Influenza hemagglutinin is a
- There are currently 16 types of influenza hemagglutinin antigens known to humans, labeled H1 to H16, of which the newly discovered H16 was found in recent years on influenza A viruses isolated from black-headed gulls in Sweden and Norway. The first three hemagglutinins (H1, H2, and H3) are common in human influenza viruses.
- The highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus also infects humans at a slow rate. Some studies have pointed out that the reason why H5N1 avian influenza can infect humans is because a mutation in one of the amino acids in the H5 type hemagglutinin of the virus has changed the target of the virus and explained that this virus, which would not infect humans, Through mutation, it can effectively infect human cells.