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Ribavirin reveals a lethal threshold of allowable mutation frequency for Hantaan virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 2007
Chung Dong-Hoon, Sun Yanjie, Parker William B, Arterburn Jeffrey B, Bartolucci Al, Jonsson Colleen B
Abstract excerpt
The broad spectrum of antiviral activity of ribavirin (RBV) lies in its ability to inhibit IMP dehydrogenase, which lowers cellular GTP. However, RBV can act as a potent mutagen for some RNA viruses. Previously we have shown a lack of correlation between antiviral activity and GTP repression for...
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