News tagged with viral enzymes
Research team identifies key molecules that inhibit viral production
Mar 10, 2009 |
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The research, led by Professor Donny Strosberg of Scripps Florida, was published on March 4, 2009, in the Journal of General Virology's advance, online edition, Papers in Press.
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The way to a virus' 'heart' is through its enzymes
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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The arrival of bluetongue virus (BTV) in the UK last year posed a major threat to the economy and the increasing temperatures of our changing climate mean it is here to stay. If we are to fight this disease, which has had ...
Capturing replication strategies used by SARS viruses in their bid to spread
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Sep 16, 2008 |
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Just over five years ago, an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-coronavirus killed over 750 people. SARS (corona)virus, a positive-stranded RNA virus, replicates in the cytoplasm of host cells, attaching ...
Researchers identify new drug target for Kaposi's sarcoma
Jul 30, 2009 |
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UCSF researchers have identified a new potential drug target for the herpes virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma, re-opening the possibility of using the class of drugs called protease inhibitors against the full herpes family ...
New culprit for viral infections among elderly -- an overactive immune response
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November ...
Scientists create first crystal structure of an intermediate particle in virus assembly
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Feb 08, 2009 |
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The structure, described February 8 in an advance online publication of the journal Nature, provides fresh insights into the elegant dance that viral proteins perform to create the infectious structure that causes all ma ...
An advance on new generations of chemotherapy and antiviral drugs
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Researchers are describing progress toward developing a new generation of chemotherapy agents that target and block uncontrolled DNA replication — a hallmark of cancer, viral infections, and other diseases ...
Potential new herpes therapy studied
Feb 03, 2009 |
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A new therapy being developed at the University of Florida could, in time, produce another weapon for the fight against herpes.
Study identifies human genes required for hepatitis C viral replication
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers are investigating a new way to block reproduction of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) - targeting not the virus itself but the human genes the virus exploits in ...
No-entry zones for AIDS virus
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 12, 2009 |
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The AIDS virus inserts its genetic material into the genome of the infected cell. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have now shown for the first time that the virus almost entirely spares particular ...
Scientists learn structure of enzyme in unusual virus
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Sep 17, 2007 |
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Biologists have determined the three-dimensional structure of an unusual viral enzyme that is required in the assembly of new viruses.
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