伦敦帝国学院(Imperial College)化学系的Edward Tate博士领导的科学家们在《Nature Chemistry》杂志以一篇题为“Fragment-Derived Inhibitors of Human N-Myristoyltransferase Block Capsid Assembly and Replication of the Common Cold Virus”的论文中报告了他们的进展。
The novel molecule IMP-1088(yellow)blocks human NMT(blue),a protein essential for the cold virus to assemble the geometric capsid"shell"that encloses its RNA genome(green).[Imperial College London]