Furin cleavage of SARS-CoV-2 Spike promotes but is not essential for infection and cell-cell fusion.

Furin cleavage of SARS-CoV-2 Spike promotes but is not essential for infection and cell-cell fusion.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects cells by binding to the host cell receptor ACE2 and undergoing virus-host membrane fusion. Fusion is triggered by the protease TMPRSS2, which processes the viral Spike (S) protein to reveal the fusion peptide. SARS-CoV-2 has evolve...

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Main Authors: Guido Papa, Donna L Mallery, Anna Albecka, Lawrence G Welch, Jérôme Cattin-Ortolá, Jakub Luptak, David Paul, Harvey T McMahon, Ian G Goodfellow, Andrew Carter, Sean Munro, Leo C James
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009246

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009246

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