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Isolation and characterization of a SARS-CoV-2 variant with a Q677H mutation in the spike protein.
Archives of virology - 20 Dec 2022
Niu Xiaoyu, Xu Jiayu, Liu Mingde, Tu Huolin, Koenig Sara N, Saif Linda J, Jones Daniel M, Wang Qiuhong
Abstract excerpt
We isolated 20 SARS-CoV-2 strains from positive clinical samples collected in Columbus, Ohio, and investigated the replication of one pair of isolates: a clade 20G strain and a variant of this strain carrying a Q677H mutation in the spike protein and six other amino acid mutations. The OSU.20G variant replicated to a higher peak infectious titer than the 20G base strain in Vero-E6 cells, but the titers were...
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