SINGLE MUTATION DEFENSE. “Ebola virus infects host cells by attaching its surface glycoprotein to a host cell receptor called NPC1…We mapped this resistance to a single amino acid change in the NPC1 gene of this bat…This tiny change prevents Ebola from binding to the NPC1 receptor.”
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linkedin post 2022-06-29 05:12:48
Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022