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SARS-CoV-2 isolates missing part of the furin cleavage site
2023-09-06
Abstract excerpt
The discovery ofbat coronaviruses in Southeast Asia very similar to SARS-CoV-2 is key to deciphering SARS-CoV-2’s origin. They are remarkable the bat coronaviruses BANAL52 fromLaos and Rp22DB159 from Vietnam, which are the closest known relatives of SARS-CoV-2. Bat BANAL52 and Rp22DB159 spike glycorpotein havethe receptor binding domain almost identical to that of SARS-CoV-2, they can therefore infect human cells,...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 04011ab9-1767-58db-b733-8231601bd2c6
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3323340/v1
