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Fooling the novel coronavirus with a fake handshake to inactivate the virus – News-Medical.Net
Fool the novel coronavirus once and it can’t cause infection of cells, new research suggests.
Fool the novel coronavirus once and it can’t cause infection of cells, new research suggests.
Scientists have developed protein fragments – called peptides – that fit snugly into a groove on the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein that it would normally use to access a host cell. These peptides effectively trick the virus into “shaking hands” with a replica rather than with the actual protein on a cell’s surface that lets the virus in.
Previous research has determined that the novel coronavirus binds to a…
