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Genome-wide Bioinformatics Analysis of Human Protease Specificity Identified Potential Cathepsin L Cleavage Site at K790 Position of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein
2023-08-21
Abstract excerpt
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) primarily enters the cell by binding the virus’s spike (S) glycoprotein to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor on the cell surface, followed by proteolytic cleavage by host proteases. Studies have identified furin and TMPRSS2 proteases in priming and triggering cleavages of the S glycoprotein, converting it into a fusion-competent for...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ae5732a5-a3ef-563d-be45-41a6862ed879
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.08.19.553950
