The hemagglutinin-like proteins of basal vertebrate influenza-like viruses exhibit sialic-acid receptor binding disparity and their structural bases

• Di Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Di Zhang, Kefang Liu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China, Beijing Life Science Academy, Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogen Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China

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• Kefang Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Di Zhang, Kefang Liu

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Beijing Life Science Academy, Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogen Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China

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• Yufeng Xie,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Junqing Sun,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogen Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China

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• Wei Zhang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Core Facility, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Haixia Xiao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Vaccines, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Tianjin, China

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• Yi Shi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Beijing Life Science Academy, Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogen Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China

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• William J. Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NHC Laboratory of Biosafety, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), Beijing, China

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• George F. Gao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Beijing Life Science Academy, Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogen Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3869-615X

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• Chuxia Deng ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cxdeng@um.edu.mo (CD); gaofeng@tib.cas.cn (FG)

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

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• Feng Gao

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cxdeng@um.edu.mo (CD); gaofeng@tib.cas.cn (FG)

  Affiliations Beijing Life Science Academy, Beijing, China, Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Vaccines, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Tianjin, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0670-010X

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