Domains and Functions of Spike Protein in SARS-Cov-2 in the Context of Vaccine Design
The spike protein in SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-2-S) interacts with the human ACE2 receptor to gain entry into a cell to initiate infection. Both Pfizer/BioNTech’s BNT162b2 and Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine candidates are based on stabilized mRNA encoding prefusion SARS-2-S that can be produced after the mRNA i...
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MDPI AG
2021-01-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/1/109 |