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Actually, my understanding [1] is that the spike proteins are expected to come together to form a full spike, and that this is what the antibodies match off of.
by SamBam 6y ago
Actually, my understanding [1] is that the spike proteins are expected to come together to form a full spike, and that this is what the antibodies match off of.
So, even further from regex. The RNA gets turned into a sequence of amino acids, which folds in an extremely complex 3D shape, which bind together with two other proteins to form a large structure, the full shape of which is matched by antibodies.
1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/pfizer-biont...