ジカ ウイルス の prM タンパク質 の 単一の 変異 が 胎児 の 微頭 症 に 寄与 する

Ling Yuan1,2, Xing-Yao Huang3, Zhong-Yu Liu3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, Beijing 100101, China.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 4, 2017
PubMed
まとめ

特定のZikaウイルス (ZIKV) 変異であるSer139Asnは,神経原細胞の感染性を著しく高めます. この適応は,小頭症の重症度およびマウスモデルでの死亡率の増加と関連しており,流行性毒性を説明しています.

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