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Researchers identify key areas of measles virus polymerase to target for antiviral drug development

August 12, 2019
Infectious Disease
Basic Research
Grantee

Targeting specific areas of the measles virus polymerase, a protein complex that copies the viral genome, can effectively fight the measles virus and be used as an approach to developing new antiviral drugs to treat the serious infectious disease, according to a study by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University published in PLoS Pathogens.