Driving a wedge between viral lipids blocks infection

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 17069-17070

  Melikyan, Gregory B ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANE; LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUS INTERNALIZATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUSES;

EID: 78049318430     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012748107     Document Type: Note

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