Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses
The spike protein is a focused target of COVID-19, a pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. A 12-nt insertion at S1/S2 in the spike coding sequence yields a furin cleavage site, which raised controversy views on origin of the virus. Here we analyzed the phylogenetic relationships of coronavirus spike protei...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-01-01
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Series: | Stem Cell Research |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873506120304165 |