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SUBMITTER: Pirone L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7416604 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pirone Luciano L Del Gatto Annarita A Di Gaetano Sonia S Saviano Michele M Capasso Domenica D Zaccaro Laura L Pedone Emilia E
Frontiers in molecular biosciences 20200803
The public health has declared an international state of emergency due to the spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) representing a real pandemic threat so that to find potential therapeutic agents is a dire need. To this aim, the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) glycoprotein represents a crucial target for vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, and diagnostics. Since virus binding to ACE-2 alone could not be sufficient to justify such severe infection, in order to facilitate medical countermeasure development ...[more]