and PA. PB2 plays a role in overcoming the host barrier; however, the genetic prerequisites
for avian PB2 to acquire mammalian pathogenic mutations have not been well elucidated.
Previously, we identified a prototypic avian PB2 that conferred non-replicative and non-
pathogenic traits to a PR8-derived recombinant virus when it was used to infect mice. Here,
we demonstrated that key amino acid mutations (I66M, I109V, and I133V, collectively …