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Proteolytic cleavage of nucleocapsid helps SARS-CoV-2 evade host immune responses – News-Medical.Net

A team of scientists of the University of Oxford reveals that the nucleocapsid protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) undergoes…

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A team of scientists of the University of Oxford reveals that the nucleocapsid protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) undergoes autoproteolysis, and that resulting products can escape the host immune responses and facilitate viral proliferation. The study is currently available on the bioRxiv* preprint server.
Since its emergence in December 2019, highly infectious and deadly SARS-CoV-2, the causative pathogen of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has infected…

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