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SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.16.20 lineage study sample: 21% shows a synonymous base substitution in the S gene arginine codons CGG–CGG encoding the S protein furin cleavage site
2023-09-18
Abstract excerpt
The furin recognition motif present at the SARS‐CoV2 spike glycoprotein S1/S2 junction has no analogy in other beta‐coronaviruses, including neither the new discovery ofbat coronaviruses in Southeast Asia very similar to SARS-CoV-2: BANAL52 fromLaos and Rp22DB159 from Vietnam, which are the closest known relatives of SARS-CoV-2. They can therefore infect human cells, despite the absence of the polybasic furin clea...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 25221801-b789-5ab2-a754-8680e12663b5
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3356724/v1
