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SUBMITTER: Coloma J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5074680 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Coloma Javier J Jain Rinku R Rajashankar Kanagalaghatta R KR García-Sastre Adolfo A Aggarwal Aneel K AK
Cell reports 20160912 12
The Zika virus (ZIKV) poses a major public health emergency. To aid in the development of antivirals, we present two high-resolution crystal structures of the ZIKV NS5 methyltransferase: one bound to S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and the other bound to SAM and 7-methyl guanosine diphosphate (7-MeGpp). We identify features of ZIKV NS5 methyltransferase that lend to structure-based antiviral drug discovery. Specifically, SAM analogs with functionalities on the Cβ atom of the methionine portion of the ...[more]