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Message 5361 - Posted 2 Sep 2009 3:02:11 UTC
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Are you interested in searching for molecules likely to offer a swine flu treatment? If you are, and your software can handle proteins of a suitable size, you might want to try to get this group to tell you which protein their vaccine is directed against, and then search for assorted molecules that will dock to it:

Breakthrough In Universal Flu Vaccine Development, Japan

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/137953.php

Since that protein is the one the virus uses to attach to human cells, it isn't likely to survive any mutation in that protein, and most other flu viruses are likely to use the same protein for attaching to human cells. Therefore, such a treatment is likely to work against most types of flu affecting humans, not just swine flu.

Testing such a result could need you to add the capability to test the ability of a third molecule (a human cell surface protein molecule) to dock to the two molecules already docked, though.

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Message 5392 - Posted 17 Sep 2009 16:46:21 UTC - in response to Message ID 5361 .

Thanks a lot, very good suggestion

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