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Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 exhibits an increased resilience to the antiviral type I interferon response
2022-01-20
Abstract excerpt
The new variant of concern (VOC) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Omicron (B.1.1.529), is genetically very different from other VOCs. We compared Omicron with the preceding VOC Delta (B.1.617.2) and the wildtype strain (B.1) with respect to their interactions with the antiviral type I interferon (IFN-alpha/beta) response in infected cells. Our data indicate that Omicron has gain...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fa1bdc9a-c356-5bb4-8442-9e1da77354e0
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.01.20.476754
