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A mechanism may affect the infectivity of new coronavirus mutant strains

 Last Update: 2021-12-03
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Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus, several more contagious variants of the new coronavirus have emerged

The new coronavirus uses the spike protein on its outer surface to attach and enter the cell.

The researchers studied the effect of GALNT enzyme activity on the spike protein in Drosophila and mammalian cells

The researchers expressed wild-type or mutant spike proteins in cultured cells

Further experiments show that this process may also occur in humans

The researchers said that the activity of GALNT1 may regulate the infectivity of the virus, which provides a new perspective for us to understand how the alpha and delta variants affect the infectivity of the virus

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