Flu 2 (IMAGE)

Rice University

Flu 2

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The influenza hemagglutinin protein may take two paths as it reconfigures while attaching a virus to a host cell: It can send all its fusion peptides to the host or split them between the host and the virus. Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine hope to identify a point during reconfiguration at which drugs could inactivate the peptides.

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Nathanial Eddy/Rice University

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