Exposure of an occluded hemagglutinin epitope drives selection of a class of cross-protective influenza antibodies

Antibody cross-reactivity can help to prevent escape mutations from enabling viral escape, but underlying mechanisms are unclear. Here the authors identify influenza hemagglutinin epitopes that are exposed during viral replication and which result in the generation of a class of protective cross-rea...

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Main Authors: Yu Adachi, Keisuke Tonouchi, Arnone Nithichanon, Masayuki Kuraoka, Akiko Watanabe, Ryo Shinnakasu, Hideki Asanuma, Akira Ainai, Yusuke Ohmi, Takuya Yamamoto, Ken J. Ishii, Hideki Hasegawa, Haruko Takeyama, Ganjana Lertmemongkolchai, Tomohiro Kurosaki, Manabu Ato, Garnett Kelsoe, Yoshimasa Takahashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11821-6