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Combination Attenuation Offers Strategy for Live Attenuated Coronavirus Vaccines.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2018
Menachery Vineet D, Gralinski Lisa E, Mitchell Hugh D, Dinnon Kenneth H, Leist Sarah R, Yount Boyd L, McAnarney Eileen T, Graham Rachel L, Waters Katrina M, Baric Ralph S
Abstract excerpt
With an ongoing threat posed by circulating zoonotic strains, new strategies are required to prepare for the next emergent coronavirus (CoV). Previously, groups had targeted conserved coronavirus proteins as a strategy to generate live attenuated vaccine strains against current and future CoVs. With this in mind, we explored whether manipulation of CoV NSP16, a conserved 2'O methyltransferase (MTase), could...
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