2vir is a 3 chain structure with sequence from Mus musculus and Viruses. This structure supersedes the now removed PDB entry 1vir. The April 2006 RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month feature on Hemagglutinin by David S. Goodsell is 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2006_4. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
The structure of the hemagglutinin (HA) of a mutant influenza virus that escapes neutralization by a monoclonal antibody shows that the mutation causes changes in HA structure which avoid an energetically less favorable conformation. However, the structure of the mutant HA.Fab complex indicates that the antibody binds selectively to mutant HA in a wild type-like distorted conformation. The association of an antibody with a less favored HA conformation represents an alternative to previously described mechanisms of escape from neutralization by antibodies.
Antigen distortion allows influenza virus to escape neutralization.,Fleury D, Wharton SA, Skehel JJ, Knossow M, Bizebard T Nat Struct Biol. 1998 Feb;5(2):119-23. PMID:9461077[1]
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