Australian researchers say another pathway by which the COVID-19 virus enters human cells

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Corona virus or SARS-CoV-2, which causes disease COVID-19, using ACE2 receptors on human cells as entry points by binding spike proteins to these receptors. However, it turned out that there was another entry point that researchers from Australia found.

Together with their international colleagues, the researchers discovered another pathway that SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter human cells, which may explain the high infection rate. Corona virus new compared to other similar viruses.

In two studies released on Wednesday 21 October, researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia and their European counterparts found that Corona virus new receptors can also use another, called neuropilin to enter human cells.

“Now we know that in addition to the already known ACE2 receptor, the spike protein binds to a second receptor on the host cell called neuropilin,” said Prof. Brett Collins, co-author of the UQ Institute of Molecular Bioscience.

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