Cedenna researchers Dr. Miguel Kiwi (National Prize for Exact Sciences and member of the Board of Directors) and Dr. Felipe Torres, together with Dr. Iván Schuller (Cedenna's international advisor) are the authors of the paper "The impact of the suppression of highly connected protein interactions on the Corona virus infection” that will appear very soon in the prestigious journal Scientific Reports (published by Nature Research).
This work may be key to developing new vaccination strategies against Covid, since it shows that there is a specific set of interactions between SARS-CoV-2 proteins and the human being that, when suppressed, critically modify the structure of the infection. . This was predicted with a complex network model and the results were corroborated by various experimental data sources.
The result turns out to be of high impact considering that the vast majority of vaccination strategies focus exclusively on the role of the Spike protein. Now that infections have once again begun to rise, and that it is shown globally that the pandemic is not a thing of the past, this may be very important for developing new vaccination strategies.
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