Human metapneumovirus

Highly Potent Host-Specific Small-Molecule Inhibitor of Paramyxovirus and Pneumovirus Replication with High Resistance Barrier

Gerardo Turcatti, Marc Chambon, Damiano Banfi, Jonathan Patrice Vesin

Multiple enveloped RNA viruses of the family Paramyxoviridae and Pneumoviridae, like measles virus (MeV), Nipah virus (NiV), canine distemper virus (CDV), or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), are of high clinical relevance. Each year a huge number of live ...

AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY2021

Boosting subdominant neutralizing antibody responses with a computationally designed epitope-focused immunogen

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Jaume Bonet Martinez, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Fabian Sesterhenn, Stéphane Rosset, Che Yang, Patricia Corthésy Henrioud, Sabrina Susan Vollers

Throughout the last several decades, vaccination has been key to prevent and eradicate infectious diseases. However, many pathogens (e.g., respiratory syncytial virus [RSV], influenza, dengue, and others) have resisted vaccine development efforts, largely ...

2019

Severe viral respiratory infections in children with IFIH1 loss-of-function mutations

Jacques Fellay, Paul Jack Mc Laren, Istvan Bartha, Christian Hammer, Thomas Junier, Samira Asgari

Viral respiratory infections are usually mild and self-limiting; still they exceptionally result in life-threatening infections in previously healthy children. To investigate a potential genetic cause, we recruited 120 previously healthy children requiring ...

Natl Acad Sciences2017

Immobilization of the N-terminal helix stabilizes prefusion paramyxovirus fusion proteins

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata

Parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus of the Paramyxoviridae family. PIV5 fusion and entry are mediated by the coordinated action of the receptor-binding protein, hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN), and the f ...

National Academy of Sciences2016

Force-induced globule-coil transition in laminin binding protein and its role for viral-cell membrane fusion

Giovanni Dietler, Serguei Sekatski, Fabrizio Benedetti, Andrey Mikhaylov, Tatyana Karakouz

The specific interactions of the pairs laminin binding protein (LBP)-purified tick-borne encephalitis viral surface protein E and certain recombinant fragments of this protein, as well as West Nile viral surface protein E and certain recombinant fragments ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014