PLpro grips a new molecule that is meant to slow PLpro. (IMAGE)

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PLpro grips a new molecule that is meant to slow PLpro.

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SARS-CoV-2 creates dangerous enzymes, called proteases, which help the virus replicate and also disable an immune system’s messaging system. Here, one of the virus’s primary protease’s, PLpro, grips a new molecule that is meant to slow PLpro.

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(Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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