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SUBMITTER: Zhou H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5362447 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Han H Wang Fenghua F Wang Haofeng H Chen Cheng C Zhang Tianqing T Han Xu X Wang Deping D Chen Chen C Wu Chen C Xie Wei W Wang Zefang Z Zhang Lei L Wang Lanfeng L Yang Haitao H
Oncotarget 20170201 9
An outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection has been reported in South and Central America and the Caribbean. Neonatal microcephaly potentially associated with ZIKV infection has already caused a public health emergency of international concern. Currently, there are no clinically effective vaccines or antiviral drugs available to treat ZIKV infection. The methyltransferase domain (MTase) of ZIKV nonstructural protein 5 (NS5) can sequentially methylate guanine N-7 and ribose 2'-O to form m7NGpppA2 ...[more]