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Researchers claim: Coronavirus spike protein changing its shape
JULY 25 (WTN) - The Coronavirus infection epidemic to have spread from Wuhan city in China is now quite widespread. At the time of writing this article, about 6,41,814 people have died across the world from the Coronavirus infection. At the same time, around 1,59,47,291 people have been infected due to the Coronavirus infection disease so far.
Here, no vaccine has yet been invented for Coronavirus infection disease (COVID-19). However, scientists around the world are working day and night to fully develop the Coronavirus vaccine. But, unfortunately, no concrete success has yet been achieved in the direction.
In fact, scientists are facing a challenge in making the Coronavirus vaccine because the virus named SARS-CoV-2 has undergone several changes. It means that it has been mutated many times. And this change has disturbed the scientists engaged in the invention of the vaccine, and the researchers who are doing research about it.
For your information, let's know that Dr. Bing Chen, researcher of Boston Children's Hospital, and his associate researchers have researched about the change in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 by. Let's know that Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) technology was used in that research.
Explain that this research of researchers engaged in continuous research has been published in a science journal. According to the researchers, new information has been revealed about SARS-CoV-2's Spike Protein. Indeed, the researchers claim that the spike protein changes its shape after attaching to a human cell. The researchers claim that the spike protein can bend itself. Not only this, but the spike protein also hardens itself and transforms itself into the shape of a hairpin.
Regarding the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the researchers claim that its shape resembles that of crowned pointed thorns worn on the head. And, this is the spike protein that initiates infection in the human cell. According to the researchers, the spike protein attaches itself to an enzyme ACE2 receptor before it enters the human cell and starts making copies of itself. At the same time, the spike protein changes dramatically to the shape of a hairpin after attaching to the ACE2 receptor. At the same time, research has claimed that this change in the size of the spike protein can occur even before it is attached to a human cell.
According to the researchers, the new shape of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein may help it to break down. Actually, the SARS-CoV-2 virus can survive on many surfaces for quite a long time due to its rigid shape.
Now, since the SARS-CoV-2 virus takes a severe form, then it is possible that for this reason, it is also escaping the immune system of the human body. This is why, because the rigid solid new shape of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can easily deceive antibodies. And, for this reason, the antibodies of the human body are not able to neutralize this virus.
Indeed, the researchers speculate that the antibodies on a common protein, which enter the human cell, are not able to work on the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. The researchers claim that molecules called glycans are spread in this protein before and after the protein enters the human cell, leaving the immune system unaware of it.
However, many vaccines are currently being developed on the basis in which the vaccine activates the immune system according to the spike protein. However, a change in the size of the spike protein may reduce the effect of the vaccine. But, now, researchers say that if the spike protein is not stable, then antibodies will be produced, but they will not be able to stop the virus.
Well, now, after getting such important information, the scientists involved in making the vaccine of Coronavirus infection disease hope that by getting this important information, they will be able to develop the vaccine. But, until the Coronavirus infection vaccine is formed, you should increase your immunity so that you can protect yourself from this infectious disease.