A New Year, Newfangled COVID-19 Variant B.1.640.2 (IHU): What We Know So Far?

Q3 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Suman Kumar Ray, Sukhes Mukherjee
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Abstract

A new COVID-19 variant that no one currently wants has emerged with the start of the new year. Omicron, which was first discovered in November of last year, was only just beginning to be understood when another strain uncovered in France made headlines. On January 4, 2022, news of the variant exploded on social media, but cases of what is now known as variant B.1.640.2 (IHU) were initially discovered about two months prior. Evidence is still being gathered, but internet misinformation regarding the latest coronavirus variety is already rampant, as it was with Omicron. The majority of existing vaccines target SARS-spike CoV-2's protein, which the virus utilizes to enter and infect cells. Epidemiologists and virologists worldwide are concerned about the virus' spike protein, which plays a key role in how your body identifies and reacts to the virus. Spike proteins are produced, recognized, and defended against by our immune system. Your body and the vaccines you have had injected into your system have a far harder time fighting the virus when the amino acids in a protein are altered or removed.

新的一年,新的COVID-19变体B.1.640.2 (IHU):我们迄今为止知道什么?
新年伊始,一种目前没人想要的新型COVID-19变体出现了。欧米克隆于去年11月首次被发现,当在法国发现的另一种菌株成为头条新闻时,人们才刚刚开始了解它。2022年1月4日,有关该变种的新闻在社交媒体上爆发,但现在被称为变种B.1.640.2 (IHU)的病例最初是在大约两个月前发现的。证据仍在收集中,但关于最新冠状病毒品种的互联网错误信息已经猖獗,就像欧米克隆一样。现有的大多数疫苗都针对sars刺突CoV-2的蛋白质,病毒利用该蛋白质进入并感染细胞。世界各地的流行病学家和病毒学家都很关注这种病毒的刺突蛋白,它在你的身体如何识别病毒和对病毒做出反应方面起着关键作用。刺突蛋白由我们的免疫系统产生、识别和防御。当蛋白质中的氨基酸被改变或移除时,你的身体和注射到你体内的疫苗就更难对抗病毒了。
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Infectious disorders drug targets
Infectious disorders drug targets Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-Pharmacology
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期刊介绍: Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets aims to cover all the latest and outstanding developments on the medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, genomics and biochemistry of contemporary molecular targets involved in infectious disorders e.g. disease specific proteins, receptors, enzymes, genes. Each issue of the journal contains a series of timely in-depth reviews written by leaders in the field covering a range of current topics on drug targets involved in infectious disorders. As the discovery, identification, characterization and validation of novel human drug targets for anti-infective drug discovery continues to grow, this journal will be essential reading for all pharmaceutical scientists involved in drug discovery and development.
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