Role of haemagglutinin

INFLUENZA VIRUS SIALIDASE A TARGET FOR DRUG DISCOVERY 

Since haemagglutinin is involved in the adhesion of influenza virus to epithelial cells, it is an attractive target for therapeutic intervention. The design and synthesis of potential inhibitors of haemagglutinin has been reviewed elsewhere [5, 7, 14, 17, 33, 34] and, apart from a brief discussion of the general approaches employed towards such anti-influenza agents, is outside the scope of this article. 

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