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Host cell entry of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus after two-step, furin-mediated activation of the spike protein.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Oct 2014
Millet Jean Kaoru, Whittaker Gary R
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a newly identified betacoronavirus causing high morbidity and mortality in humans. The coronavirus spike (S) protein is the main determinant of viral entry, and although it was previously shown that MERS-CoV S can be activated by various proteases, the details of the mechanisms of proteolytic activation of fusion are still incompletely characterized....
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