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Structure and inhibition of the drug-resistant S31N mutant of the M2 ion channel of influenza A virus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Jan 2013
Wang Jun, Wu Yibing, Ma Chunlong, Fiorin Giacomo, Wang Jizhou, Pinto Lawrence H, Lamb Robert A, Klein Michael L, Degrado William F
Abstract excerpt
The influenza A virus M2 proton channel (A/M2) is the target of the antiviral drugs amantadine and rimantadine, whose use has been discontinued due to widespread drug resistance. Among the handful of drug-resistant mutants, S31N is found in more than 95% of the currently circulating viruses and shows greatly decreased inhibition by amantadine. The discovery of inhibitors of S31N has been hampered by the limited...
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