Coronavirus – an important scientific breakthrough in Hungary!

Scientists of the University of Szeged discovered a new infection mechanism of the COVID-19 virus. Anett Hudák, László Szilák, and Tamás Lehota found that there is another way in which the virus can get into human cells, which is useful information if one wants to develop a vaccine or provide proper treatment for patients.

According to RTL Klub, the SARS-CoV-2 virus gets into human cells by attaching to an enzyme, the so-called ACE2. If it gets to a cell, it can multiply inside and then infect other cells as well. In the beginning, research focused on how to prevent the attachment of the virus to the enzyme and how to block the virus’s RNS to do the process on the ACE2.

However, based on the discovery of Hungarian researchers, it seems that the virus can get inside human cells through proteins containing saccharides as well. The scientists’ paper about their findings is currently under examination, but

the scientific journal called Nature already published it on its preprint server.