FIGURE 4 | Interaction of alpha-N-acetylneuraminic acid (1a) with influenza virus sialidase.

From the following article:

The war against influenza: discovery and development of sialidase inhibitors

Mark von Itzstein

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 6, 967-974 (December 2007)

doi:10.1038/nrd2400

The war against influenza: discovery and development of sialidase inhibitors

a | alpha-N-acetylneuraminic acid (alpha-Neu5Ac) bound in a boat-like conformation to the influenza virus sialidase active site. b | Eight invariant amino-acid residues make direct contact with Neu5Ac. c | Neu5Ac interactions with the influenza A virus sialidase active site (derived from LIGPLOT software67).

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