How CORONA virus tricks immune system with camouflage

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How CORONA virus works in our body :

Like an intruder deactivating alarm before entering a building , the CORONA virus SARS-COV-2 has been found to have the same advantage entering cells. 

A study in nature communications describes how CORONA virus achieve this.
The virus produces an enzyme called nsp16, which it then use to modify its messenger RNA cap. In lay terms, messenger RNA can be described as a deliverer of genetic code to worksites that produces proteins.

The modification of by the virus serve as a camouflage, the researchers explained. “ Because of modification, which fool the cell, the resulting viral messenger RNA is now considered as a part of cells own code and not foreign,” lead author Yogesh Gupta of the university of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio said in a statement.

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