Polymer-attached zanamivir inhibits synergistically both early and late stages of influenza virus infection
Covalently conjugating multiple copies of the drug zanamivir (ZA; the active ingredient in Relenza) via a flexible linker to poly-l-glutamine (PGN) enhances the anti-influenza virus activity by orders of magnitude. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms of this phenomenon. Like ZA itself, the...
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81198 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3830-714X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5687-6154 |