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Receptor specificity of the HA of IAVs is known to be a critical determinant of viral cell tropism. Here, we show that fusion properties of the HA may also play a key role in the tropism. Thus, we demonstrate that IAVs having a relatively low pH optimum of fusion cannot efficiently infect human endothelial cells owing to their relatively high endosomal pH and increased expression of fusion-inhibiting IFITM3 protein. These restrictions can be overcome by IAVs with elevated pH of fusion, such as zoonotic H5N1 and H7N9. Our results illustrate that the infectivity of IAVs depends on an interplay between HA conformational stability, endosomal acidification and IFITM3 expression in target cells, and the extracellular pH. Given significant variation of levels of HA stability among animal, human, and zoonotic IAVs, our findings prompt further studies on the fusion-dependent tropism of IAVs to different cell types in humans and its role in viral host range and pathogenicity.

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HA-Dependent Tropism of H5N1 and H7N9 Influenza Viruses to Human Endothelial Cells Is Determined by Reduced Stability of the HA, Which Allows the Virus To Cope with Inefficient Endosomal Acidification and Constitutively Expressed IFITM3