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Emetine inhibits Zika and Ebola virus infections through two molecular mechanisms: inhibiting viral replication and decreasing viral entry

The re-emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) and Ebola virus (EBOV) poses serious and continued threats to the global public health. Effective therapeutics for these maladies is an unmet need. Here, we show that emetine, an anti-protozoal agent, potently inhibits ZIKV and EBOV infection with a low nanomola...

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Autores principales: Yang, Shu, Xu, Miao, Lee, Emily M, Gorshkov, Kirill, Shiryaev, Sergey A., He, Shihua, Sun, Wei, Cheng, Yu-Shan, Hu, Xin, Tharappel, Anil Mathew, Lu, Billy, Pinto, Antonella, Farhy, Chen, Huang, Chun-Teng, Zhang, Zirui, Zhu, Wenjun, Wu, Yuying, Zhou, Yi, Song, Guang, Zhu, Heng, Shamim, Khalida, Martínez-Romero, Carles, García-Sastre, Adolfo, Preston, Richard A., Jayaweera, Dushyantha T., Huang, Ruili, Huang, Wenwei, Xia, Menghang, Simeonov, Anton, Ming, Guoli, Qiu, Xiangguo, Terskikh, Alexey V., Tang, Hengli, Song, Hongjun, Zheng, Wei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29872540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41421-018-0034-1