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Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
Dispatch

Enhanced Replication of Highly Pathogenic Influenza A(H7N9) Virus in Humans

Seiya Yamayoshi1, Maki Kiso, Atsuhiro Yasuhara, Mutsumi Ito, Yuelong Shu, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (S. Yamayoshi, M. Kiso, A. Yasuhara, M. Ito, Y. Kawaoka); Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, China (Y. Shu); Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (Y. Shu); University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan (Y. Kawaoka)

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Table 1

Amino acid differences between PB2 and PA in 2 influenza A(H7N9) viruses*

Virus
PB2
PA
191
340
482
559
560
584
588
702
100
262
387
394
465
497
GD wild-type E K R T I I V R V K I D V R
AN/PB2-627E† K R K N V V A K A R V N I K

*AN, A/Anhui/1/2013(H7N9); GD, A/Guangdong/17SF003/2016; PA, polymerase acidic; PB, polymerase basic.
†This mutant possessed a K to E substitution at position 627 of PB2, but the other residues of PB2 and PA were identical to those of wild-type AN.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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