text: Lijun Rong, UIC professor of microbiology and immunology. Credit: Jenny Fontaine
  "These G protein-coupled receptors are a big family of closely related molecules in humans—altogether, probably more than a thousand," said Rong. Because GPCRs are involved in many human diseases, he said, a host of drugs have already been developed that target them.
  "There are a lot of drugs and compounds that work through this mechanism—acting as antagonists to GPCR receptors," he said. "This gives us a huge repertoire that can be tested against Ebola/Marburg."
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