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Coronacept – A trap-and-destroy molecule against SARS-CoV-2 – News-Medical.Net
A new study published on the preprint server bioRxiv* in August 2020 reports a novel engineered molecule based on human and other mammalian orthologues of ACE2 fused with the Fc part of the antibody. This molecule interacts more tightly with the viral recepto…
The current pandemic of COVID-19 is due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which enters the human host cell via the receptor molecule called the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). A new study published on the preprint server bioRxiv* in August 2020 reports a novel engineered molecule based on human and other mammalian orthologues of ACE2 fused with the Fc part of the antibody. This molecule interacts more tightly with the viral receptor-binding domain (RBD) …
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