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Close relatives of MERS-CoV in bats use ACE2 as their functional receptors
2022-03-29
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and several bat coronaviruses employ Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) as their functional receptors. However, the receptor for NeoCoV, the closest MERS-CoV relative yet discovered in bats, remains enigmatic. In this study, we unexpectedly found that NeoCoV and its close relative, PDF-2180-CoV, can efficiently use some types of bat Ang...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4e84fffc-45ff-57fd-8d42-ec50dd202136
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1292418/v1
