Early pandemic vulnerability to severe COVID identified for certain immune system genotypes
Imagine a previously unknown bug—new to our immune defenses—that suddenly emerged and rapidly spread all over the globe, ...
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Human leukocyte antigen B (HLA-B) interacts with a segment from SARS-CoV-2 (IMAGE)
The illustration is based on the crystal structure of HLA-B*15:01 in complex with spike derived peptide NQKLIANQF from SARS-CoV-2 virus (PDB Entry - 8ELH) published by Augusto et al., 2023 (Nature).