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A human genetic mechanism hijacked by SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, to help it spread also makes it vulnerable to a new class of drug candidates, a new study finds.
Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, a research team showed that coronavirus reproduction in infected human cells requires chemical changes made by the human protein METTL3 to RNA, a key form of genetic material. Additional human proteins involved in the recognition of modified RNA, YTHDF1 and YTHDF3, were also found to be important to the process.
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Genes and Development on June 24, the study showed for the first time that a molecular inhibitor of METTL3, designed by Storm Therapeutics Ltd and called STM2457, dramatically reduced in cell cultures the replication of both pandemic SARS-CoV-2 and, a less severe, seasonal coronavirus, HCoV-OC43, one cause of the common cold.
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Good Friday morning.
The daily rundown Between Wednesday and Thursday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 13,148 (1.1 percent), to 1,168,483; active hospitalizations went down by 23 (0.4 percent), to 5,122; deaths rose by 101 (nearly 0.5 percent), to 20,305.
Crank up the outrage machine Well, that escalated quickly.