Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

The stalk is an important part of the Ebola virus structure because it anchors Ebola's glycoprotein structure (which drives entry into a host cell) to Ebola's viral membrane. The team spearheaded ...

The paper A. Bruchez et al., “MHC class II transactivator CIITA induces cell resistance to Ebola virus and SARS-like coronaviruses,” Science, 370:241–47, 2020. Earlier this year, immunologist Adam ...

Select any virus below to explore its structure and biology ... Glycoproteins typically bind to receptors on the membrane of a host cell. Viruses that do not bud from the host cell membrane ...

‘Filming’ viruses at atomic resolution Filoviruses, such as the Ebola virus and Marburg ... with target cells, in how they reorganize the proteins and how their structure changes,” says ...

Like Ebola, the Sudan virus enters cells by binding to NPC1 ... Reference: Bu F, Ye G, Turner-Hubbard H, Herbst M, Liu B, Li F. Cryo-EM structure of Sudan ebolavirus glycoprotein complexed with its ...