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Bird Flu
Reports on bird flu findings from Chulalongkorn University provide new insights
September 2nd, 2008
According to recent research from Bangkok, Thailand, "The origin of the high pathogenicity of an emerging avian influenza H5N1 due to the -RRRKK- insertion at the cleavage loop of the hemagglutinin H5, was studied using the molecular dynamics technique, in comparison with those of the noninserted H5 and H3 bound to the furin (FR) active site. The cleavage loop of the highly pathogenic H5 was found to bind strongly to the FR cavity, serving as a conformation suitable for the proteolytic reaction." "With this configuration, the appropriate interatomic distances were found for all three reaction centers of the enzyme-substrate complex: the arrangement of the catalytic...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-09-02)
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