Strange mutation of SARS-CoV-2 causing patient cells to grow "tentacles"

Reporter : Liu Minghuan

Editor : Wen Hui

Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television

Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/06/30/a102882642.html

Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan

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Image : After research, the team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Taiwan found that SARS-CoV-2 has evolved into six major types. (pixabay.com)

The latest research from the University of California in the United States pointed out SARS-CoV-2 (CCP virus) has undergone an  "strange mutation", causing infected human cells to grow "tentacles." The rate of viral infection has increased.

Comprehensive foreign media reports that the scientific community now generally believes that SARS-CoV-2 spreads in the same way as other viruses. It adheres to the surface of healthy cells such as the mouth, nasal cavity, respiratory tract, lungs, and blood vessels. The team’s latest research found that the virus has evolved to bypass the immune system and infect healthy cells.

The picture taken by the research team through the microscope shows that the virus will first infect the first healthy cell, turning it into a "zombie cell", and then the zombie cell will grow a tentacle-like "filament pseudopod", through the long "filamentous pseudopods" full of virus particles come into contact with other healthy cells, and then inject venom into them, thereby creating more "zombie cells" and speeding up the infection rate and efficiency.

In this regard, Nevan Krogan, a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of California, who leads the research, said that "this virus uses another mechanism to infect other cells before it kills the cells, which is too evil." He said that although AIDS virus and vaccinia also spread  to the whole body through the "filament pseudopod", but SARS-CoV-2 can develop the "filament pseudopod" so quickly, and the "filament pseudopod" is branch-like like a trunk. The proliferation is also very strange.

Stephen Goff, a microbiologist at Columbia University, said the virus may have developed more than two ways to quickly infect more healthy cells.

The relevant research results were published on 26 June in the internationally renowned academic journal "Cell" under the article entitled The Global Phosphorylation Landscape of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. The pre-proof version of the article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.034 and accessible online at ScienceDirect, i.e. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420308114.

Earlier, Reuters reported on 28 June that American cardiac medicine authority and director of California Scripps Research Center Eric Topol said that originally thought that SARS-CoV-2 will only affect the respiratory system of patients, but later clinical studies found it will then attack the patient's pancreas, heart, liver, brain, kidney and other organs, which was not previously expected.

In addition to causing breathing difficulties, people diagnosed with covid also have abnormal blood coagulation problems. Thrombosis may lead to strokes, severe inflammation and other symptoms, and the virus will attack the nervous system, causing concurrent headaches, dizziness, loss of taste and smell, epilepsy and Insanity.

In addition, various complications caused by the CCP virus may continue to affect the health of the patient in the next few years, resulting in a large amount of medical expenses to "recover", and even if the physical strength of recovery will be much worse than before, it cannot be restored to the state before the illness .

The medical community believes that recovering from these concurrent problems may take time, may not fully recover, is expensive, and greatly affects the quality of life.