What is AEG12, recently seen in news?

March 16, 2021

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 16 March 2021

What is AEG12, recently seen in news?

A. Asteroid

B. Mosquito protein

C. Space craft

D. Viral disease

Explanation:

A mosquito protein, called AEG12, strongly inhibits the family of viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Zika, and also weakly inhibits coronaviruses, according to scientists at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators. The researchers found that AEG12 works by destabilising the viral envelope, breaking its protective covering. The protein does not affect viruses that do not have an envelope.