“…H5 and H7 escape mutants frequently contain substitutions in the 150-loop (H3: 155–163; H5: 151–159; H7: 144–154). Escape mutants with substitutions at 155 (Kaverin et al 2007 , Timofeeva et al 2020b ), 156 (discussed above), 157 (Kaverin et al 2002 , Thornburg et al 2016 , Lyashko et al 2024 ), 158 (Ibañez et al 2011 , Höper et al 2012 , Zhang et al 2015 , Chang et al 2023 ), 158 B (Thornburg et al 2016 , Huang et al 2019 ) (158 A and 158 B are present in H7 but not H5 AIVs), 159 (He et al 2010 , Höper et al 2012 , He and Kwang 2013 ), 160 (discussed below), 162 (Rudneva et al 2010 ), and 163 (Paul et al 2017 ) are described. Phenotypically, K156N or K157M substitutions increase affinity to α-2,3 receptor analogues (Ilyushina et al 2004 ), R162K decreased the pH of fusion, R162W has no detectable effect on pH of fusion, and R162G decreased thermostability (Kaverin et al 2015 ).…”