DESIGN OF POTENTIAL RNAi MOLECULES FOR TARGETING COVID-19 Authors: Jaya Lakshmi N and Jabalia N*
ABSTRACT
Today our world is trapped under an evasive pandemic called COVID 19 which has claimed
upto 503k lives and still counting. COVID 19 is a highly communicable disease caused by a
subfamily of a coronavirinae specifically known as SARS CoV-2 of beta coronavirus family.
Since the scale of this new disease is humongous a novel vaccine for the effective treatment
of the infected patients is yet to be developed. This paper gives a positive direction towards
vaccine development by utilizing RNAi as medium to block the access of the virus into the
human host. The last section highlights computational approach towards designing potential
RNA interference molecules targeting the surface glycoprotein of SARS CoV-2 virus.
Keywords: COVID 19, SARS CoV-2, RNAi, Surface glycoprotein Publication date: 01/11/2020 https://ijbpas.com/pdf/2020/November/MS_IJBPAS_2020_5245.pdfDownload PDFhttps://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2020/9.11.5245
