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New Coronavirus Protease Structure Available

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  1. JakeTheDog
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    My professional (biochemistry) twitter feed has been blowing up lately with rapid releases of data on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), and I thought I could give some insight to the scientific...

    My professional (biochemistry) twitter feed has been blowing up lately with rapid releases of data on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), and I thought I could give some insight to the scientific front lines.

    There was also an article posted here recently about the success of AlphaFold predicting protein structure correctly, and a question about why this is important. Here's an excellent example.

    Main takeaway: because we have the structure of a key nCoV protein, and because it is very similar to the functionally-identical protein in the nCoV relative, SARS, this discovery means we can leap ahead in drug development for combating nCoV infection.

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