As highly pathogenic avian influenza has spread in dairy herds across the U.S., the virus is being detected in raw milk. A new study by a broad team of researchers at Iowa State University's ...

With the help of their new development, they have also analyzed how novel influenza viruses use alternative receptors to enter target cells. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email.

"Human influenza A viruses of subtype H2N2 and related H2N2 avian influenza viruses can enter cells through a second receptor. They use an alternative entry pathway," says Stertz.

What they found – loads of the H5N1 influenza virus ... Their findings, published as a preprint study, show that cows have the same receptors for flu viruses as humans and birds.

Influenza A virus exploits transferrin receptor recycling to enter host cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2023; 120 (21) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2214936120 Cite This Page : ...

The potential mutation would allow the avian influenza virus sweeping through dairy herds to attach to a receptor protein on the surface of our cells.

Microscope images of mammary gland tissue taken from a dairy cow infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza are magnified by 200 times on the left and 400 times on the right. On the left, cells ...

Unlike most influenza viruses, which bind to glycans - i.e. carbohydrate chains on the cell surface - for infection, the H18N11 virus has a different target. “This virus binds to MHC class II ...

Human influenza A viruses of subtype H2N2 and related H2N2 avian influenza viruses can enter cells through a second receptor. They use an alternative entry pathway." ...

This work is published in Science in the paper, “A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors.. Influenza viruses attach to cells using ...

“Human influenza A viruses of subtype H2N2 and related H2N2 avian influenza viruses can enter cells through a second receptor. They use an alternative entry pathway,” says Stertz.

With the help of their new development, they have also analyzed how novel influenza viruses use alternative receptors to enter target cells. The results were published in two papers in the journal ...