During the isolation of the peptide, researchers suggested that it exhibited potential chelating properties and might co-isolate with almost the same amount of copper ions and a fifth of the amount of iron found in the cells
Whilst a handful of enterovirus vaccines are available, including for poliovirus (PV) and for EV-A71 (frequently responsible for serious outcomes of hand, foot and mouth disease) 1,2,3,4 , there are as yet no licenced anti-enterovirus drugs, despite evidence for efficacy in clinical trials and reports of extremely high potency for compounds targeting a pocket internal to capsid protein VP1 (termed here the P site) 5,6
Expression and functional role of dipeptidyl peptidase IV (CD26) on human natural killer cells
doi:10.1016/j.molmet.2020.101143
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