Engineered Ubiquitins as an Anti-viral Tool (IMAGE)

University of Toronto

Engineered Ubiquitins as an Anti-viral Tool

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Engineered ubiquitins (blue and red squiggles on the left) are similar to normal ubiquitin (orange squiggle on the right) but they can paralyze the V-shaped MERS enzyme by binding to it more tightly.

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Dr. Wei Zhang

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