Viroporin: A New Target on the Road to Developing Broad-Spectrum Antivirals (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Viroporin: A New Target on the Road to Developing Broad-Spectrum Antivirals (1 of 1)

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Activation of positive-strand RNA virus genome replication by virus-induced membrane permeabilization, revealing new druggable antiviral targets. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 24 January 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Nishikiori at University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wis., and colleagues was titled, "Organelle luminal dependence of (+)strand RNA virus replication reveals a hidden druggable target."

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[Credit: Masaki Nishikiori and Paul Ahlquist, University of Wisconsin - Madison]

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