Key muscle protein may unlock the mystery of chronic mosquito-borne viral illness

Underlying evolutionary dynamics could play a key role in the replication and progress of the chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne viral disease. New research from Ph.D. student Wern Hann Ng, Dr. Xiang Liu and Professor Suresh Mahalingam from Griffith University’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland, shows the mechanism by which the chikungunya virus leverages a host protein.