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Authors: Zhou S, Hill CS, Sarkar S, Tse LV, Woodburn BM PMID: 33961695 PMCID: PMC8136050 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiab247 Abstract Mutagenic ribonucleosides can act as broad-based antiviral agents. They are metabolized to the active ribonucleoside triphosphate form and concentrate in genomes of RNA viruses during viral replication. β-d-N4-hydroxycytidine (NHC, initial metabolite of molnupiravir) is >100-fold more active [...]
Categories: I-CARE Early Covid
Tags: molnupiravir, mutagenesis, SARS-CoV-2