A novel amino acid substitution at the receptor-binding site on the hemagglutinin of H3N2 influenza A viruses isolated from 6 cases with acute encephalopathy during the 1997–1998 season in Tokyo
1999
Mori, S.-I. | Nagashima, M. | Sasaki, Y. | Mori, K. | Tabei, Y. | Yoshida, Y. | Yamazaki, K. | Hirata, I. | Sekine, H. | Ito, T. | Suzuki, S.
We analyzed the hemagglutinin (HA) genes of influenza A viruses consisting of 6 strains isolated from cerebrospinal fluids of patients with encephalopathy and 3 isolates from throat washes of patients without central nervous system symptoms during the 1997–1998 season in Tokyo. Aligned 9 amino acid sequences showed 7 common substitutions compared with A/Wuhan/359/95 (vaccine strain used in the season in Japan), which were allocated to three different antigenic sites on the H3 HA molecule. It is noted that a novel substitution at the receptor-binding site (Tyr-137 to Phe) was found exclusively in the isolates from the patients with encephalopathy.
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