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This is so wrong I do not know where to start. ADAM17 is responsible for shedding of ACE2 from the cell which creates soluble ACE2. If ACE2 is not ON the cell
by podgaj 7y ago
This is so wrong I do not know where to start.
ADAM17 is responsible for shedding of ACE2 from the cell which creates soluble ACE2. If ACE2 is not ON the cell the virus cannot infect the cell.
ADAM17, like ACE2 is a zinc finger protein and uses zinc as a cofactor.
Also, zinc is widely understood to lower the immune response by affecting interferon levels.
It is not only about intracellular zinc. But in a deficiency intracellular zinc has even less chance of being brought into the cell, right?
To say that zinc does not matter because hydroxychloroquin is absurd.