La unión a ACE2 expone el péptido de fusión del SARS-CoV-2 a los anticuerpos del coronavirus ampliamente

Jun Siong Low1,2, Josipa Jerak1,2, M Alejandra Tortorici3

  • 1Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 20, 2022
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores identificaron siete potentes anticuerpos monoclonales (mAbs) dirigidos al péptido de fusión conservado de los coronavirus. Estos anticuerpos neutralizan las variantes del SARS-CoV-2 y reducen la carga viral in vivo, ofreciendo nuevas vías terapéuticas.

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