haemagglutinin

/ ˌhɛm-; ˌhiːməˈɡluːtɪnɪn /

noun

1. an antibody that causes the clumping of red blood cells

Example Sentences

Anna Blakney, an RNA bioengineer at the University of British Columbia, told the journal Nature that there is no guarantee mRNA will be an effective vehicle for transporting haemagglutinin glycoproteins, the protein that flu vaccines use to fight the different bugs.

From Salon

Anna Blakney, an RNA bioengineer at the University of British Columbia, told the journal Nature that there is no guarantee mRNA will be an effective vehicle for transporting haemagglutinin glycoproteins, the protein that flu vaccines use to fight the different bugs.

From Salon

One way this could happen is if the gene for haemagglutinin, an important protein on the surface of the virus, underwent an amino acid–swapping mutation that replaced a particular glycine, more often seen in bird flu viruses, with an aspartic acid, which is more characteristic of human viruses.

From Science Magazine

On these viruses, the activation site is found on a protein called haemagglutinin, not on the spike protein.

From Nature

The haemagglutinin protein on the surface of flu viruses isn’t similar or related to the spike protein in coronaviruses, says Peter White, a virologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

From Nature