Surface Protein Binding in Influenza A

Surface Protein Binding in Influenza A

Submitted by Akila Jayaraman, Kannan Tharakaraman, Rahul Raman, Karthik Viswanathan, Nathan W Stebbins, David Johnson, Zachary Shriver, and Ram Sasisekharan of the Koch Institute

MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Koch Institute at MIT

"This image shows binding of the surface protein (in green) of the H7N9 influenza A virus (from the outbreak early this year) to the human trachea. We were trying to learn the tropism and the tissue specificity of the H7N9 influenza A virus to human respiratory tract."

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