This Review highlights general principles of virus–glycan interactions and provides specific examples of sialic acid binding by viruses with stalk-like attachment proteins, including influenza ...

For example, they must evolve to recognize the ... from several animal and human coronaviruses to glycans called sialic acids, revealing host-specific patterns of binding. Sialic acids are ...

SARS-CoV-2, for example, is known to involve cell surface ... Similarly, MERS-CoV is known to interact with some sialic acids, sugar molecules found on the surface of cells, which have also ...

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis ... evolved to maintain very low levels of sialic acid in their skin mucus to avoid triggering ...

However, a second mechanism guards against autoimmune mayhem: inhibitory receptors expressed on the surface of B cells — for example, the sialic acid–binding immunoglobulin-like lectins ...

“We wondered if we could inhibit transmission by targeting sialic acids, and in our model, we were able to demonstrate that we can do this,” study lead Mila Ortigoza, M.D., Ph.D., told Fierce ...

They break into cells by latching onto sugars that stick up from their surfaces called sialic acids. H5N1, the bird flu virus behind the ongoing outbreak in the US, has really only demonstrated an ...