Flu 1 (IMAGE)

Rice University

Flu 1

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The influenza hemagglutinin protein reconfigures itself as it targets host cells to infect them. Until new analysis by Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine researchers, nobody had been able to study the intermediate states of the protein-refolding process that may be vulnerable to treatment with drugs.

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Jeffrey Noel/Rice University

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