Development of a S-adenosylmethionine analog that intrudes the RNA-cap binding site of Zika methyltransferase

Abstract The Zika virus (ZIKV) has emerged as a major health hazard. We present here a high resolution structure (1.55 Å) of ZIKV NS5 methyltransferase bound to a novel S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) analog in which a 4-fluorophenyl moiety substitutes for the methyl group. We show that the 4-fluoropheny...

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Main Authors: Rinku Jain, Kyle V. Butler, Javier Coloma, Jian Jin, Aneel K. Aggarwal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01756-7