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Several scientists led by Professor Max Crispin revealed the structure and shape of the emerging corona virus (Covid-19), in an attempt to learn more and help develop a vaccine that would eliminate it, as they announced a three-dimensional model created at the University. from Southampton in Great Britain, to camouflage the virus that use it to hide from the human immune system.
According to the British website “Daily Mail”, the first model shows protein mutations on the virus’s surface, which are the main targets of antibody and vaccine research, while researchers say: surface sugars allow them infiltrate the body, without discovering a wonderful mitigation.
“Critical and encouraging information”
The researchers discovered that the new coronavirus is not as protective or disguised as HIV, confirming that the model will provide “critical and encouraging” information to scientists who make a vaccine, since the Corona virus has a large number of nails coming out of its surface that it uses to unite cells and enter them. The human body
They explained that the nails are covered in sugars, known as glycans, that mask their viral proteins and help them evade the body’s immune system.
Encouraging message.
Professor Crispin said: By being coated with sugars, these viruses can hide from the immune system, but one of the main results of our study is that, despite the amount of sugars present, this coronavirus is not protected like other viruses, which indicates that the lower protection of the sugars attached to it reveals it is a “hit and run” virus, which is transmitted from person to person.
He concluded that this is a very encouraging message to develop the vaccine, noting that the research was done using equipment previously provided with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through cooperation to discover the AIDS vaccine. .
