Relevance of host cell surface glycan structure for cell specificity of influenza A virus
Markus Kastner, Andreas Karner, Rong Zhu, Qiang Huang, Dandan Zhang, Jianping Liu, Andreas Geissner, Anne Sadewasser, Markus Lesch, Xenia Wörmann, Alexander Karlas, Peter Seeberger, Thorsten Wolff, Peter Hinterdorfer, Andreas Herrmann, Christian Sieben
This study uses glycan arrays and single-virus force spectroscopy to show that influenza A virus receptor binding preference does not always match cell specificity.
bioRxiv · Oct 14, 2017 · PreprintMicrobiology