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Nice voice! 👍 About the best combinations for optimal interaction with ACE2 receptors, it means that viruses with such combinations would be more infective, right? Given that, shouldn't we try to protect ourselves beforehand a possible advent of such viruses, starting to create a vaccine?
4 года назад
Hi Marco, thanks for your comment. Yes, there are other sequences of the RBD of the spike protein able to better interact with ACE2 enzyme. But we really don't know if in the future viruses with such a RBD will emerge in the community (as the real viruses are not created by a computer, but naturally selected among the animal population). For this reason, it is impossible to create a vaccine for viruses that could not exist at all. What we can do is to track the other coronaviruses in the animal population and understand which of them are more likely to spread in humans in the future. Hope I answered your question ;-)
