Thursday 19 December 2019
Cross-fertilization between biology and chemistry is infinite. Influenza virus particles have been shown to move across surfaces induced by the activity of the receptor-cleaving enzyme neuraminidase (NA). In this review, we draw the parallel between the motion of the flu virus and the motility of artificial receptor-cleaving molecules called “molecular spiders”. Studies of the self-avoiding motion across a surface exhibited by this type of molecular walkers lead to insights into the mechanism of motion of influenza and its governing factors, for example, the functional balance of hemagglutinin (HA) and NA.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/SC/2020/C9SC05149J#!divAbstract
