TRIBUNJABAR.ID – Good news, researchers have found weakness corona virus.
Researchers at the Bristol School of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol, UK, have managed to find a “drug bag” in the SARS-CoV-2 protein, the virus that causes Covid-19.
Researchers call the “medicine bag” a weak point of the corona virus.
These findings can later be used as weapons or antiviral drugs to prevent the virus from infecting the human body.
Lead researcher Professor Christiane Schaffitzel said SARS-CoV-2 was dotted with multiple copies of the glycoprotein, called a peak, which plays an important role in viral transmission.
Launch of Eurekalert (21/9/2020, the peak attaches to the surface of human cells, makes it possible corona virus get into the cell and start replicating and causing significant damage.
In this study, Christiane and Professor Imre Berger of the Max Planck-Bristol Center for Minimal Biology used this technique. electron microscope (cryo-EM) to analyze SARS-CoV-2 peaks at close to atomic resolution.
With a variety of methods, researchers can more clearly examine the peaks to identify their molecular makeup.
Suddenly, corona virus known to use so-called small molecules linoleic acid (LA) to tie and spread.
LA is an essential fatty acid that is essential for many cellular functions.
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