The antiviral drug ribavirin, which is used against hepatitis and other infections, can be an effective medicine for coronavirus, scientists from Goethe University and staff at Frankfurt University Hospital say. The study is published in the journal Nature.
Specialists have found that COVID-19 alters human cells. They used one of the varieties of mePROD mass spectrometry to determine how fast and how much protein is synthesized in colon cells.
Many viruses stop the production of infected proteins in favor of viral proteins, however, it turned out that coronavirus slightly affects the production of protein, while accelerating its synthesis.
To slow the spread of the virus, scientists used translation inhibitors that inhibit the process of protein synthesis, which involves messenger RNA, transport RNA, and ribosomes.
Among the substances that stop the reproduction of the virus in cell culture was 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG), as well as ribavirin.
In total, according to the World Health Organization, SARS-CoV-2 infected 4.2 million people, more than 287 thousand of them died.
In Russia, the number of people infected with coronavirus exceeded 252 thousand people, 53 thousand patients recovered, 2,305 people died.
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