New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...

South African poultry industry suffers R1. 8 billion in losses as experts warn of potential human transmission risks from the ...

Their immunogen composition is revised biannually to optimally match the antigenic drift of the hemagglutinin of circulating influenza virus strains. Antibodies directed against the influenza ...

Validation that K432E and I321V are responsible for antigenic drift was not determined in a background strain with native K432 and I321 or the restitution of antibody binding by reversion to K432 and ...

But the vaccine is only partially protective and the virus undergoes antigenic drift, ie, slight changes in its outside coat, enough to escape protection for some persons in the population.

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

A new study by LMU and Helmholtz Munich shows how pathogens control changes in their cell surface to evade the immune system.

"This strategy is known as antigenic variation," explains physicist Maria Colomé-Tatché, who is Professor of Functional Genomics and Cell Biology at LMU's Biomedical Center and leader of the ...