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Spike destabilization attenuates Mink Cluster 5 SARS-CoV-2.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Mar 2026
Faraone Julia N, Li Pei, Hong Junping, Zang Jinkai, Liu Yajie, Xu Yan, Qu Panke, Evans John P, Chen Jie, Zheng Yi-Min, Chen Phylip, Peeples Mark E, Xu Kai, Liu Shan-Lu
Abstract excerpt
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has shown the capacity to infect a wide range of nonhuman hosts, including farmed mink. In early 2020, a mink-associated variant, termed mink cluster 5 (MC5V), emerged in Denmark and spread to mink farmers and their household contacts but failed to cause a sustained outbreak and eventually disappeared. Here, we...
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