2wrc | pdb_00002wrc

THE STRUCTURE OF INFLUENZA H2 HUMAN SINGAPORE HEMAGGLUTININ

spinqualitylabelsall models 2wrc, resolution 2.71Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2wrc is a 3 chain structure with sequence from Influenza virus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Related: 2wrg, 2wr4, 2wr0, 2wr3, 2wrf, 2wrd, 2wr1, 2wr2, 2wr7, 2wrb, 2wre, 2wrh, 2wr5 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed The viruses that caused the three influenza pandemics of the twentieth century in 1918, 1957, and 1968 had distinct hemagglutinin receptor binding glycoproteins that had evolved the capacity to recognize human cell receptors. We have determined the structure of the H2 hemagglutinin from the second pandemic, the "Asian Influenza" of 1957. We compare it with the 1918 "Spanish Influenza" hemagglutinin, H1, and the 1968 "Hong Kong Influenza" hemagglutinin, H3, and show that despite its close overall structural similarity to H1, and its more distant relationship to H3, the H2 receptor binding site is closely related to that of H3 hemagglutinin. By analyzing hemagglutinins of potential H2 avian precursors of the pandemic virus, we show that the human receptor can be bound by avian hemagglutinins that lack the human-specific mutations of H2 and H3 pandemic viruses, Gln-226Leu, and Gly-228Ser. We show how Gln-226 in the avian H2 receptor binding site, together with Asn-186, form hydrogen bond networks through bound water molecules to mediate binding to human receptor. We show that the human receptor adopts a very similar conformation in both human and avian hemagglutinin-receptor complexes. We also show that Leu-226 in the receptor binding site of human virus hemagglutinins creates a hydrophobic environment near the Sia-1-Gal-2 glycosidic linkage that favors binding of the human receptor and is unfavorable for avian receptor binding. We consider the significance for the development of pandemics, of the existence of avian viruses that can bind to both avian and human receptors. Structures of receptor complexes formed by hemagglutinins from the Asian Influenza pandemic of 1957.,Liu J, Stevens DJ, Haire LF, Walker PA, Coombs PJ, Russell RJ, Gamblin SJ, Skehel JJ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Oct 6;106(40):17175-80. Epub 2009 Sep 28. PMID:19805083 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Hemagglutinin

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