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SUBMITTER: Madara JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4480923 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Madara Jonathan J JJ Han Ziying Z Ruthel Gordon G Freedman Bruce D BD Harty Ronald N RN
Future virology 20150501 5
The highly virulent nature of Ebola virus, evident from the 2014 West African pandemic, highlights the need to develop vaccines or therapeutic agents that limit the pathogenesis and spread of this virus. While vaccines represent an obvious approach, targeting virus interactions with host proteins that critically regulate the virus lifecycle also represent important therapeutic strategies. Among Ebola virus proteins at this critical interface is its matrix protein, VP40, which is abundantly expre ...[more]