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The H7 viruses circulate in ducks, poultry and equines and have repeatedly caused outbreaks of disease in humans. The laboratory strain A\/chicken\/Rostock\/R0p\/1934 (H7N1) (R0p), which was previously derived from the highly pathogenic strain A\/FPV\/Rostock\/1934 (H7N1), was studied in this work to ascertain its biological property, genome stability and virulent changing mechanism. Several virus variants were obtained by serial passages in the chicken lungs. After 10 passages of this virus through the chicken lungs we obtained a much more pathogenic variant than the starting R0p. The study of intermediate passages showed a sharp increase in pathogenicity between the fifth and sixth passage. By cloning these variants, a pair of strains (R5p and R6p) was obtained, and the complete genomes of these strains were sequenced. Single amino acid substitution was revealed, namely reversion Gly140Arg in HA1. This amino acid is located at the head part of the hemagglutinin, adjacent to the receptor-binding site. In addition to the increased pathogenicity in chicken and mice, R6p differs from R5p in the shape of foci in cell culture and an increased affinity for a negatively charged receptor analogue, while maintaining a pattern of receptor-binding specificity and the pH of conformational change of HA.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/v13081584","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,11]],"date-time":"2021-08-11T02:14:41Z","timestamp":1628648081000},"page":"1584","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Substitution Arg140Gly in Hemagglutinin Reduced the Virulence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus H7N1"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Anastasia","family":"Treshchalina","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for the Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products, Village of Institute of Poliomyelitis, Settlement \u201cMoskovskiy\u201d, 108819 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yulia","family":"Postnikova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Elizaveta","family":"Boravleva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for the Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products, Village of Institute of Poliomyelitis, Settlement \u201cMoskovskiy\u201d, 108819 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1892-0548","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexandra","family":"Gambaryan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for the Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products, Village of Institute of Poliomyelitis, Settlement \u201cMoskovskiy\u201d, 108819 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alla","family":"Belyakova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for the Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products, Village of Institute of Poliomyelitis, Settlement \u201cMoskovskiy\u201d, 108819 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Aydar","family":"Ishmukhametov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for the Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products, Village of Institute of Poliomyelitis, Settlement \u201cMoskovskiy\u201d, 108819 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Galina","family":"Sadykova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alexey","family":"Prilipov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2638-4244","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Natalia","family":"Lomakina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"105","article-title":"Influenza virus: Transmission between species and relevance to emergence of the next human pandemic","volume":"13","author":"Webster","year":"1997","journal-title":"Arch. 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