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More on cholesterol hints in the research:
"Here, we report that one of the interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs), cholesterol 25-hydroxylase (CH25H), is induced by SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro and in COVID-19-infected patients. CH25H converts cholesterol to 25-hydrocholesterol (25HC) and 25HC shows broad anti-coronavirus activity by blocking membrane fusion. (…) ###Since 25HC is a natural product with no known toxicity at effective concentrations,### it provides a potential therapeutic candidate for COVID-19 and emerging viral diseases in the future.
from https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2020106057
"It has been reported that lipid modification can effectively improve the antiviral activity of peptides … modified the EK1 peptide at its C terminus with palmitic acid (EK1P) or cholesterol (EK1C) and proved that EK1C had higher inhibitory activity against SASRS-CoV-2 [SARS-CoV-2] than EK1P."
see attached PDF, from: https://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/pdf/S2213-6711(20)30505-1.pdf
"…EK-1 peptide which was derivatized with cholesterol and palmitic acid…"
from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460888/