This study illuminates how such adaptations in catalytic strategy support efficient sialic acid degradation and contribute to the pathogen’s survival in glucose‐limited environments [4].

GGC’s Associate Director of Research Heather Flanagan-Steet, PhD, has been awarded a Translational Science Grant from the ...

Researchers have characterized the binding of proteins from several animal and human coronaviruses to glycans called sialic acids, revealing host-specific patterns of binding. When coronaviruses ...

One sialic acid bound on the glycosylated “up” conformational state is shown in yellow-orange color. The detailed interaction modes for the bound modes are shown in Figure 4 and Supplementary ...

News Release 15-Jan-2025 Bacterial small RNA promotes gut colonization by regulating sialic acid metabolism Peer-Reviewed Publication Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters ...

As a visual aid, Ortigoza compared sialic acids to a lollipop, where the candy part is the sialic acid. Neuraminidases cleave the candy off the end of the stick, she explained.

Sialic acids are important sugar molecules naturally present in most living organisms that play important roles in cellular processes such as cell-cell interactions and protein communication.

WASHINGTON — When traces of H5N1 bird flu showed up in cow’s milk last year, it raised fears that the virus could become more infectious to humans. So far, that hasn’t happened, virologist ...

Like human flu viruses, many flu viruses that infect animals use sialic acids to enter host cells. However, some use a different entryway, called the major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC ...