Saturday, November 27, 2021

Omicron, Glycans and Aggressiveness

 

We wrote about glycans and their effect on the COVID Spike protein and aggressiveness. All the other variants have little if any glycan changes. Omicron has the above, namely 11 out of a total of about 30. Namely one third of the protein sites will be affected by glycan activity, which we now know lends itself to aggressive behavior. Even though we do not yet know the folding and binding sites the glycan profile is worrisome.