As stated in a study published in the journal Nature Microbiology on September 16, 2019, researchers from the University of California in San Francisco and Standford University discovered that momentarily disabling a certain noncritical protein in cells called methyltransferase SETD3 could halt the replication of viruses, including the rhinovirus that causes most common colds.
Traditionally, antiviral drugs would target the virus itself. But there are approximately 160 known types of human rhinoviruses (HRVs) on record. That “remarkable phenotypic diversity has precluded the development of a vaccine and effective antivirals,” the researchers wrote.
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William Schaffner, MD, an infectious disease specialist and a professor of preventive medicine and health policy says, “In this study, the investigators have done something very clever…Pretending the cold virus is a key trying to get into the lock, researchers have disabled a protein on the cell so the virus cannot infect those cells.”
Experts say this discovery needs to be studied further.
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