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Inhibition of Na+/K+ ATPase blocks Zika virus infection in mice.
ZIKV is an infectious disease that has become an important concern worldwide, it associates with neurological disorders and congenital malformations in adults, also leading to fetal intrauterine growth restriction and microcephaly during pregnancy.
We examined the effects ouabain in ZIKV infection.
Lactic acid bacteria have positive effects on skin, but how do they interact with it? New insights from proteomic analysis of the lactic acid bacteria and keratinocytes interaction.
The work we have just recently published in Scientific Reports is about lactic acid bacteria and their positive effects on skin health.
Measuring protein translation and predicting small proteins in microbiomes
Our study, which was published in Nature Communications, establishes MetaRibo-Seq and uses it to predict small proteins.