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Re:Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design by amelius on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @06:58AM (#22473676)
I'm not a biologist but I suppose that not every kind of protein enters any kind of cell.
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Re:Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design by sp332 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:09AM (#22475690)
You need these proteins to interfere with viruses before they enter cells, so that part is probably fine.
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Re:Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design by pas on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:35PM (#22476701)
Where the virus can go the antiviral can go too (because it's much smaller, only targeting a smaller protein spike on the surface of the viral envelope).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#/media/File:3D_med... [the N protein is supposedly the nucleocapsid, which is basically/maybe another envelope around the RNA]

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