Yuta Tsukamoto

Feb 9, 2023 | science.org | Andrew Feinberg |Ryohei Iwata |Danyel Lee |Yuta Tsukamoto

LATEST NEWS Catching out cap snatchingSome virus families hijack part of their hosts’ RNA to enable their own replication in a process called cap snatching. Before they can enact a snatch, influenza viruses specifically require host cap maturation by a host methyltransferase called MTr1. Tsukamoto et al. screened a compound library and found that trifluoromethyl-tubercidin (TFMT) inhibits host Mtr1 and suppresses virus replication.