Deep mutational scanning of H5 hemagglutinin to inform influenza virus surveillance

B Dadonaite, JJ Ahn, JT Ort, J Yu, C Furey… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
H5 influenza is considered a potential pandemic threat. Recently, H5 viruses belonging to
clade 2.3. 4.4 b have caused large outbreaks in avian and multiple nonhuman mammalian …

A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors

TH Lin, X Zhu, S Wang, D Zhang, R McBride, W Yu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3. 4.4 b bovine influenza
H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to …

Bovine H5N1 influenza virus binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors

JJS Santos, S Wang, R McBride, Y Zhao, JC Paulson… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Clade 2.3. 4.4 b highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (HPAI) viruses started circulating
widely in lactating dairy cattle in the United States at the end of 2023. Avian influenza …

Structural and Functional Insights into the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 KP. 3.1. 1 Spike Protein

Z Feng, J Huang, S Baboo, JK Diedrich, S Bangaru… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The JN. 1-sublineage KP. 3.1. 1 recently emerged as the globally prevalent SARS-CoV-2
variant, demonstrating increased infectivity and antibody escape. We investigated how …

Epistasis in the receptor binding domain of contemporary H3N2 viruses that reverted to bind sialylated diLacNAc repeats

R Liang, F Peccati, NLD Ponse, E Uslu, GJ Boons… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Since the introduction of H3N2 influenza A viruses in the human population, these viruses
have continuously evolved to escape human immunity, with mutations occurring in and …