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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18054-x
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- Guangdong Science and Technology Plan [2014A050503038]
- Guangdong Natural Science Foundation [2015A030313095]
- Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan [201504010025]
- Zhujiang talent program overseas youth talent introduction program (post-doctoral program)
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In recent years, avian influenza virus H9N2 undergoing antigenic drift represents a threat to poultry farming as well as public health. Current vaccines are restricted to inactivated vaccine strains and their related variants. In this study, a recombinant H9N2 (H9N2-TM) strain with a replaced H3 hemagglutinin (HA) transmembrane (TM) domain was generated. Virus assembly and viral protein composition were not affected by the transmembrane domain replacement. Further, the recombinant TM-replaced H9N2-TM virus could provide better inter-clade protection in both mice and chickens against H9N2, suggesting that the H3-TM-replacement could be considered as a strategy to develop efficient subtype-specific H9N2 influenza vaccines.
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