Team Discovers Novel Target for Attacking Ebola

Researchers led by Ronald Harty, Ph.D., a professor of pathobiology and microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, say they have identified a mechanism that appears to represent one way that host cells have evolved to outsmart infection by Ebola and other viruses. In a paper ("Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy Protein BAG3 Negatively Regulates Ebola and Marburg VP40-Mediated Egress") in PLOS Pathogens, he and colleagues reveal that host cells sequester viral