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Caption: Influenza A viruses initiate infection by binding to cell-surface sialic acids, via a hemagglutinin molecule. The cover of "Essentials of Glycobiology" shows the structure of HA (background) and diagrams of three different sialic acids and the associated receptor binding sites (foreground).
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