Emory vaccine center and the Rajiv Gandhi center for biotechnology in India said frog slime can kill the H1 variety of influenza viruses.
Peptide is a tiny compound produced from a chain of amino acids called building blocks of proteins. Frogs' skin have mucus that contains peptides, it protect them from harmful bacteria.
Latest study discovered that the skin of frogs from south Indian contains anti-flu peptides and it can be used for antiviral drug.
Professor Jacob an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Emory vaccine center and Emory University School of medicine and his team referred to peptide as urumin.
The team used mild electrical stimulation to gather urumin from an Indian frog and check it under electron microscope, it was discovered that the peptide disrupt flu virus.
The urumin attached itself to the stem of the viral hemagglutinin protein which is better than the current anti-inflammatory drugs that is attached to other parts of the virus.
Since flu viruses from human cannot infect frogs, production of urumin from frogs can still fight some other pathogen.
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