TY - BOOK AU - Nahed Yehia Abdelaziz AU - Abdelsatar Arafa , AU - Ismail Mohamed Reda , AU - Mohamed Abdelhameed Shalaby , TI - Induction of selected deletion in HA gene of Egyptian HPAI - H5N1 viruses using site directed mutagenesis / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Nahed Yehia Abdelaziz , KW - HACS KW - HPAI 8LPAI KW - SDM N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Virology; Issued also as CD N2 - HA is a critical determinant of the pathogenicity of avian influenza viruses . The HA proteins of highly pathogenic H5 and H7 viruses contain multiple basic amino acids at the cleavage site that are recognized by ubiquitous proteases but low patgogenic virus contain a single arginine resdue at the HA cleavage site that are recognized by trypsin - like protease found generally at epithelial cell surfaces ER -