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Rice University: Once-Discounted Binding Mechanism May Be Key to Targeting Viruses
November 13, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 13 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release:

"Position 4" didn't seem important until researchers took a long look at a particular peptide.

That part of the peptide drawn from a SARS-CoV virus turned out to have an unexpected but significant influence on how it stably binds with a receptor central to the immune system's ability to attack diseased cells.

In a study published by the Proceedings of . . .

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