Their study, published June 2, 2017 in the journal Science, is the first to show a key piece of the viral structure, called the surface glycoprotein, for any member of the deadly arenavirus family.

The nucleocapsids of nsRNA viruses serve as templates for the virus's polymerase enzyme (also known as the large or L protein), which replicates the genome to make new infectious particles. Qi and ...

New World hemorrhagic fever arenaviruses are rodent-borne agents that cause severe human disease. The GP1 subunit of the surface glycoprotein mediates cell attachment through transferrin receptor 1 ...