The Catalytic Mechanism of Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 Haemagglutinin-Neuraminidase Revealed

Abstract

The Australian Research Council (DP1094549, M.v.I. and P.G.) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (ID1047824, ID1071659, M.v.I.) are thanked for financial support. Griffith University is gratefully acknowledged for the award of a Griffith University Postdoctoral Award (I.M.E.D.). Both L.D. and C.J.C gratefully acknowledge the award of Griffith University Postgraduate Scholarships. We thank Dr. Thomas Haselhorst for useful discussions concerning the NMR experiments. We acknowledge the Photon Factory MX beam line crew for their precious help during data collection. We are particularly thankful to T. Senda and F. X. Gallat for hosting L.D. during the experiments and initial work on structure determination of the apo structure. The experiments were performed under the approval of the Photon Factory Program Advisory Committee (Proposal No. 2012G545)