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Crystal structure of monkeypox H1 phosphatase, an antiviral drug target

  • Wen Cui 1 ,
  • Haojun Huang 1 ,
  • Yinkai Duan 2 ,
  • Zhi Luo 1 ,
  • Haofeng Wang 2 ,
  • Tenan Zhang 1 ,
  • Henry C. Nguyen 2 ,
  • Wei Shen 2 ,
  • Dan Su 1,3 ,
  • Xi Li 1 ,
  • Xiaoyun Ji , 1,4 ,
  • Haitao Yang , 2,5,6 ,
  • Wei Wang , 1
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  • 1. Institute of Life Sciences, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
  • 2. Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
  • 3. State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University and Collaborative Innovation Center of Biotherapy, Chengdu 610064, China
  • 4. State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 5. Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center, Shanghai 201210, China
  • 6. Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biotechnology and Medicine, Tianjin 300450, China
xiaoyun.ji@nju.edu.cn
yanght@shanghaitech.edu.cn
wangwei@cqmu.edu.cn

Accepted date: 30 Oct 2022

Published date: 15 Jun 2023

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2022 The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Higher Education Press.

Cite this article

Wen Cui , Haojun Huang , Yinkai Duan , Zhi Luo , Haofeng Wang , Tenan Zhang , Henry C. Nguyen , Wei Shen , Dan Su , Xi Li , Xiaoyun Ji , Haitao Yang , Wei Wang . Crystal structure of monkeypox H1 phosphatase, an antiviral drug target[J]. Protein & Cell, 2023 , 14(6) : 469 -472 . DOI: 10.1093/procel/pwac051

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