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London, Nov 27 (IANS) Scientists have uncovered a cunning strategy that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, uses to increase its infectivity. The team at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland focused on the virus’s notorious spike protein, which allows it to enter and infect human cells. Upon infecting a host, SARS-CoV-2 manipulates its cellular machinery to modify an enzyme that then turbocharges spike’s ability to invade other cells. The enzyme, abbreviated as ZDHHC20, normally tags proteins with a little fat molecule that changes the way they work. But upon infection, the virus takes over the ZDHHC20 enzyme, revealed the research published in the journal N

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