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(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Understanding how viral proteins are produced can provide important clues on how we might interfere with the process. The group of Till Rümenapf at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna has discovered that a key protease of a particular virus breaks itself down into two different functional molecules. The findings are reported in the Journal of Virology and may have important implications for the development of defense strategies against diseases caused by flaviviruses.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news