That is the hope of study participant Ian Molineux, professor of biology at the University of Texas main campus in Austin, who prepared the virus samples used in the study.
“If we can find a way of blocking any of multiple steps towards the final internalization of the genetic material, it provides the potential for finding more anti-viral drugs,” Molineux said.
An animation, produced for Science magazine by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, shows how the virus puts out tendrils to, in effect, “walk” on the cell surface.
"Then it stops moving and all the legs come down and get fixed on the cell surface, and the infection begins to initiate," Molineux said.
Molineux says the collaborative effort with Liu and others paid off, with each member of the team bringing his own area of expertise into play.
“We have a very strong collaboration. We are looking at other viruses now,” Molineux said.
He says each advance in understanding how viruses function brings researchers closer to finding ways to defeat them - and save lives.
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