The odd structure of ORF8: Mapping the coronavirus protein linked to disease severity

(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) A team of biologists who banded together to support COVID-19 science determined the atomic structure of a coronavirus protein thought to help the pathogen evade and dampen response from human immune cells. The structural map - which is now published in the journal PNAS, but has been open-access for the scientific community since August - has laid the groundwork for new antiviral treatments and enabled further investigations into how the newly emerged virus ravages the human body.
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