How to Use hemagglutinin in a Sentence

hemagglutinin

noun

• The key to why H3N2 is so hard to pin down is the protein hemagglutinin.
  — Sarah Zhang, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2015
• Called the hemagglutinin, this protein is responsible for attaching to cells that line the windpipe and lungs.
  — Paul A. Offit, Philly.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Your yearly flu vaccine targets hemagglutinin, one of the two types of proteins that cover the influenza virus.
  — Debbie Ponchner, Scientific American, 3 June 2019
• One strategy is to target a protein on the virus’s outer surface called hemagglutinin, which the bug uses to invade cells.
  — Chelsea Leu, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• Palese’s lab is focusing on ways to stimulate the immune system to recognize the stem or stalk of the hemagglutinin protein.
  — NBC News, 14 Feb. 2018
• Those harmful mutations make hemagglutinin less stable and thus less able to open up cells for invasion.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2014
• The influenza vaccine teaches the body to produce antibodies against the head of the virus's surface protein, hemagglutinin (HA).
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 20 Sep. 2017
• The other strains have differences in their hemagglutinin that keep urumin from attaching.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
• Scientists have been sequencing hemagglutinin genes from flu seasons for more than 40 years.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2014
• But there are at least 18 hemagglutinins — the surface protein that gives influenza A viruses their H number — and 11 neuraminidases, the N component.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 27 Apr. 2018
• Antibodies to the hemagglutinin prevent the virus from binding to cells and, therefore, prevent infection.
  — Paul A. Offit, Philly.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Two groups working separately, for example, are focusing on hemagglutinin’s stem, or stalk, which, unlike the head, doesn’t change.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2017
• Researchers had to manually assess the sequences for differences, focusing on regions known to be important for transmission such as hemagglutinin, the protein that binds the virus to the host cell.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2013
• Current flu vaccines generate antibodies to the head of the hemagglutinin protein, which is highly variable.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2018
• This particular protein, called hemagglutinin, helps the viruses bind to cells in the human respiratory tract.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
• Plus, his team’s vaccine generates antibodies against the hemagglutinin stalk.
  — NBC News, 14 Feb. 2018

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