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The crystal structure of Zika virus helicase: basis for antiviral drug design

  • Hongliang Tian 1,2 ,
  • Xiaoyun Ji 3 ,
  • Xiaoyun Yang 1 ,
  • Wei Xie 1 ,
  • Kailin Yang 4 ,
  • Cheng Chen 1 ,
  • Chen Wu 1 ,
  • Heng Chi 1 ,
  • Zhongyu Mu 1 ,
  • Zefang Wang 1 ,
  • Haitao Yang , 1,2
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  • 1. School of Life Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2. Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biotechnology and Medicine, Tianjin 300457, China
  • 3. The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
  • 4. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA

Published date: 20 Jun 2016

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2016 The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com and journal.hep.com.cn

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Hongliang Tian , Xiaoyun Ji , Xiaoyun Yang , Wei Xie , Kailin Yang , Cheng Chen , Chen Wu , Heng Chi , Zhongyu Mu , Zefang Wang , Haitao Yang . The crystal structure of Zika virus helicase: basis for antiviral drug design[J]. Protein & Cell, 2016 , 7(6) : 450 -454 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-016-0275-4

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