id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-298166-045evk7g Röcker, Annika E. The molecular tweezer CLR01 inhibits Ebola and Zika virus infection 2018-02-08 .txt text/plain 5837 369 58 As no preventive vaccines or antiviral drugs against these two re-emerging pathogens are available, we evaluated whether the molecular tweezer CLR01 may inhibit EBOV and ZIKV infection. The tweezer inhibited infection of epidemic ZIKV strains in cells derived from the anogenital tract and the central nervous system, and remained antivirally active in the presence of semen, saliva, urine and cerebrospinal fluid. Methods describing the effect of CLR01 on pseudotyped lentiviral particles (2.3.), Ebola virus infection (2.4.), the detection of ZIKV infection by a colorimetric MTT assay (2.5.) or by cell-based ZIKV immunodetection assay (2.6.), flow cytometry (2.7.) and confocal microscopy (2.8.) as well as the RNA release assay (2.9.) and the antiviral activity of CLR01 in body fluids (2.10) can be found in the supplement. ./cache/cord-298166-045evk7g.txt ./txt/cord-298166-045evk7g.txt