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Making sense of spike D614G in SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
Science China. Life sciences - 1 Jul 2021
Shi Aria C, Xie Xuping
Abstract excerpt
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiologic agent of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, has evolved to adapt to human host and transmission over the past 12 months. One prominent adaptive mutation is the asparagine-to-glycine substitution at amino acid position 614 in the viral spike protein (D614G), which has become dominant in the currently circulating...
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