Sort of difficult to find original studies, but here’s one I found:
Studies indicate that the process of VZV replication extracts lysine from the blood stream. The virus attempts to use lysine as it would use arginine—to make protein VII, an arginine-rich protein component of the viral core. However, this attempt fails. Thus, lysine acts like an arginine substitute, “fooling” the virus and preventing it from replicating and causing outbreaks.
Sort of difficult to find original studies, but here’s one I found:
Studies indicate that the process of VZV replication extracts lysine from the blood stream. The virus attempts to use lysine as it would use arginine—to make protein VII, an arginine-rich protein component of the viral core. However, this attempt fails. Thus, lysine acts like an arginine substitute, “fooling” the virus and preventing it from replicating and causing outbreaks.
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