Dr. Margaret Russell Macdonald M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
1230 York Ave The Rockefeller Univ New York NY, 10065About
Dr. Margaret Macdonald is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Macdonald specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
Education and Training
Washington University of Health and Sciences 1990
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Expression of the zinc-finger antiviral protein inhibits alphavirus replication.
- The zinc finger antiviral protein directly binds to specific viral mRNAs through the CCCH zinc finger motifs.
- Tracking and elucidating alphavirus-host protein interactions.
- Identification of a dominant negative inhibitor of human zinc finger antiviral protein reveals a functional endogenous pool and critical homotypic interactions.
- Host factors associated with the Sindbis virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase: role for G3BP1 and G3BP2 in virus replication.
- Identification and characterization of the host protein DNAJC14 as a broadly active flavivirus replication modulator.
- Hepatitis C virus co-opts Ras-GTPase-activating protein-binding protein 1 for its genome replication.
- Multiple interferon stimulated genes synergize with the zinc finger antiviral protein to mediate anti-alphavirus activity.
- Flavivirus replication complex assembly revealed by DNAJC14 functional mapping.
- Prenylome profiling reveals S-farnesylation is crucial for membrane targeting and antiviral activity of ZAP long-isoform.
- Chaperone-Assisted Protein Folding Is Critical for Yellow Fever Virus NS3/4A Cleavage and Replication.
- Polyamines: Small Molecules with a Big Role in Promoting Virus Infection.
- Interferon regulatory factor 2 protects mice from lethal viral neuroinvasion.
- TRIM25 Enhances the Antiviral Action of Zinc-Finger Antiviral Protein (ZAP).
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