"If we don't know what the wildlife host is, we can't know how, where or when that will be." Scientists make major ...

In 2011, co-leading author Kartik Chandran, professor of microbiology and immunology at Einstein, helped discover the cholesterol-trafficking protein Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) as this critical Ebola ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it ...

A new study finds that the Sudan virus, a deadly Ebola relative, binds to human NPC1 receptors with nine times greater ...

The Ebola virus binded poorly to straw-colored fruit bats' NPC1 receptor. "That really struck me," said Anthony, who helped discover the sixth known ebolavirus strain, Bombali virus. "It became ...

Cryo-EM structure of Sudan ebolavirus glycoprotein complexed with its human endosomal receptor NPC1 - (https://www.nature.com ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

Viral proteins with sugars attached to them are called glycoproteins. Glycoproteins typically bind to receptors on the membrane of a host cell. Viruses that do not bud from the host cell membrane ...

The Ebola virus binded poorly to straw-colored fruit bats' NPC1 receptor. "That really struck me," said Anthony, who helped discover the sixth known ebolavirus strain, Bombali virus. "It became ...