• Question: what happens to the proteins in our bodies when we take medicine

    Asked by part42gas to Diarmuid on 12 Nov 2019.
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      Diarmuid Kenny answered on 12 Nov 2019: last edited 12 Nov 2019 10:06 am

      A lot of drugs work in two ways.

      1.They attach a protein and stop it doing its job. This may be an illness where the protein is now doing something it shouldn’t so we want to stop it doing the wrong thing

      2. They interact with a protein making it more active. This could be a protein that is doing something good but not doing it as effectively as it could. therefore we want to increase its activity

      The vast majority of proteins in a body are completey unaffected by drugs

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