Tokyo - A Japanese research group has found an antibody enzyme which deals a fatal blow to the AIDS-related HIV by destroying its protein, according to a report yesterday. The discovery, made by the team of Prof Taizo Uda, a biologist at Hiroshima Prefectural University, could pave the way for a remedy for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Prof Uda's team studied amino acid in the human immuno-deficiency virus and succeeded in extracting an antibody enzyme which destroys the protein, the report said; it is highly possible that the AIDS virus becomes inactive after the protein is destroyed. The research is to be unveiled at a Japanese pharmacology meeting starting today.