Antiviral Drugs: Exposed target for broad-spectrum antivirals
@article{Tse2009AntiviralDE, title={Antiviral Drugs: Exposed target for broad-spectrum antivirals}, author={Man Tsuey Tse}, journal={Nature Reviews Drug Discovery}, year={2009}, volume={8}, pages={19-19} }
abundant anionic phospholipid of the plasma membrane, has been used as a target to develop a novel broad-spectrum antiviral agent called bavituximab. Strikingly, bavituximab was able to cure overt disease in guinea-pigs infected with a potentially lethal dose of Pichinde virus, a model of Lassa fever virus. Writing in Nature Medicine, Thorpe and colleagues proposed that the effects of a wide range of viruses on host cells could lead to normally intracellular anionic phospholipids being exposed…
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It is demonstrated that anionic phospholipids on infected host cells and virions may provide a new target for the generation of antiviral agents.