FHL1 promotes chikungunya and o’nyong-nyong virus infection and pathogenesis with implications for alphavirus vaccine design

Abstract Arthritogenic alphaviruses are positive-strand RNA viruses that cause debilitating musculoskeletal diseases affecting millions worldwide. A recent discovery identified the four-and-a-half-LIM domain protein 1 splice variant A (FHL1A) as a crucial host factor interacting with the hypervariab...

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Main Authors: Wern Hann Ng, Xiang Liu, Zheng L. Ling, Camilla N. O. Santos, Lucas S. Magalhães, Andrew J. Kueh, Marco J. Herold, Adam Taylor, Joseph R. Freitas, Sandra Koit, Sainan Wang, Andrew R. Lloyd, Mauro M. Teixeira, Andres Merits, Roque P. Almeida, Nicholas J. C. King, Suresh Mahalingam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42330-2