bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.11.435022; this version posted March 12, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Inhibitors of the Small Membrane (M) Protein Viroporin Prevent Zika Virus Infection Emma Brown1,2, Daniella Lefteri1, Ravi Singh2,3, Rebecca Thompson2,4, Daniel Maskell2,4, Hannah Beaumont1,2, Matthew Bentham1,2, Gemma Swinscoe1,2,4, Andres Merits5, Claire Donald6, Alain Kohl6, Andrew Macdonald2,4, Neil Ranson2,4, Richard Foster2,3, Clive S. McKimmie1*, Antreas C. Kalli2,7*, and Stephen Griffin1,2# 1 – Leeds Institute of Medical Research, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, St James’ University Hospital, Beckett St., Leeds, LS9 7TF 2 – Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT 3 – School of Chemistry, Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT 4 –School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT 5 - Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia 6 – MRC and University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Sir Michael Stoker Building, Garscube Campus, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, Scotland (UK) 7 – Leeds Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT * contributed equally # address correspondence to
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