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Synthetic mini-antibody identified to combat Covid-19 – Sify News
London, Nov 4 (IANS) In a significant development, scientists have identified a synthetic mini-antibody that turned out to be particularly effective in blocking…
To enable the virus to hook onto the cell surface, the spike protein binds ACE2 using three finger-like protrusions, called the receptor binding domains (RBDs).
The new synthetic mini-antibody blocks the RBDs, therefore has the potential to stop the virus from entering human cells, said the researchers from EMBL Hamburg, CSSB, Karolinska Institutet and University of Zurich.
EMBL Hamburg searched through the existing libraries to find sybodies that could block SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells….
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