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Cutaway view (left) of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, showing its double stranded RNA genome. During infection, the virus takes over a host cell’s DDX3 RNA helicase protein (right) to unwind the viral RNA and enable it to be copied. A new study shows that a Johns Hopkins Medicine-created protein, RK-33, can prevent DDX3 from carrying out this function.
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Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using SARS-CoV-2 graphic courtesy of Davian Ho for the Innovative Genomics Institute and DDX3 graphic courtesy of the Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank. Scale of virus to RK-33 is not proportional.
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