Computer Designed Antivirals against the Pandemic Coronavirus (IMAGE)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

Computer Designed Antivirals against the Pandemic Coronavirus

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An artists' conception of how small synthetic proteins, built from scratch from computer designs, can have an antiviral effect by binding with Spike proteins on SARS-CoV-2. The binding interferes with the infectivity mechanism of the virus to try to keep it from latching onto and entering cells.

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UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design

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