![]() ![]() “This continuing research is critical to understand the pathogenetic mechanisms associated with SARS-CoV2 infection and causal mechanisms of some rare COVID-19 vaccine side effects,” says Dompé farmaceutici Chief Scientific Officer Marcello Allegretti “Ongoing expanding data is revealing a well-conserved region with the same characteristics of the LXD-like motif present on the viral protein S2 subunit, also in other Coronaviruses. This has general implications not only for COVID-19, but for other viral infections altering the coagulation profile of patients”. Our data also unravel a new function of the viral protein in direct regulation of thrombosis associated factors. “The value and benefits of vaccines in countering the COVID-19 pandemic remain unquestionable and overwhelming compared to the risks associated with infection from SARS-CoV-2” underscores Maurizio Pesce, a research Group Leader at the Monzino Cardiology Center in Milan, Italy, and initiator of the study in 2021 together with the leading Silvia Barbieri, another research Group Leader at Monzino, “We hope that our findings will be considered in the development of the next generation of vaccines reducing the residual side effects and risks. This pro-coagulative function of Spike in vitro and in vivo, was abolished or strongly reduced by the variants of the Spike proteins carrying mutations in the interaction domain with ERα (as predicted by EXSCALATE). The results were further validated by overexpressing S-protein in mice. In the new article the scientists of the italo-american collaboration (encompassing Centro Cardiologico Monzino in Italy and the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the US) demonstrated that the interaction between the Spike protein and ERα leads to an increase in tissue factor (TF) and the overall pro-coagulation activity in two human endothelial cell lines. While circulating estrogens play a protective role by regulating the immune response to infection, modulation of ERα signalling in SARS-CoV-2-infected lung tissue stimulates proinflammatory signals leading to hypertrophy, vasoconstriction, and vessel obstruction. This work builds on other recent studies 3,4 showing that coagulopathy is clearly associated with the interaction of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike (S) protein with the human Erα. This interaction is mediated by a nuclear receptor co-regulator (NRC) LXD-like motif present on the viral protein S2 subunit, and the activation function 2 (AF-2) region on ERα 2. The tendency for the Spike protein to stimulate inflammatory and coagulation has been implicated in coagulopathy observed in the lungs, heart and kidneys of COVID-19 patients with a similar and extremely rare effects observed in a minority of patients who received COVID-19 vaccines.ĭata stemmed from the EXSCALATE supercomputing calculation predicted a potential function of Spike (S) as a co-factor for human ERα nuclear signalling. Send us feedback about these examples.MILAN & SAN MATEO, Calif.-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Dompé farmaceutici announced today new peer-reviewed data demonstrating that small changes in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike (S)-protein sequence can eliminate its effect in inducing coagulation 1. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'spike protein.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Typically targetting the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, these drugs neutralize the virus by binding to the portion of the virus that infects our cells, preventing further spread. 2023 Once the vaccine's fatty package is delivered, our cells translate the mRNA code into a protein-the spike protein, in this case-which can then be used to train immune cells to identify and attack invaders with the same protein-in this case, SARS-CoV-2. 2023 Those that contain lots of spike proteins, which attach to human cells and start the process of getting the virus into the cells, are also more likely to spread. ![]() 2023 But the structure of these spike proteins can change as the virus evolves, causing vaccines to become less effective against new variants of the virus. 2023 The same day, vaccine developers started plotting how to make shots based on the SARS-CoV-2 gene coding for its spike protein. 2023 But additional mutations in the virus’s spike protein, which attaches to and infects human cells, has the potential to make the variant more infectious and even cause more severe disease. 2023 The nasal vaccine also previews the entire coronavirus for the body, not just its spike proteins like current Covid-19 vaccines do, so the hamsters were able to make immune weapons against a wider range of targets. Recent Examples on the Web Those cells could potentially be killed by the immune reaction to the spike protein. ![]()
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