Circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike N439K variants maintain fitness while evading antibody-mediated immunity

SARS-CoV-2 can mutate and evade immunity, with consequences for efficacy of emerging vaccines and antibody therapeutics. Herein we demonstrate that the immunodominant SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) receptor binding motif (RBM) is a highly variable region of S, and provide epidemiological, clinical, and molecu...

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Main Authors: Thomson, EC, Rosen, LE, Shepherd, JG, Spreafico, R, da Silva Filipe, A, Wojcechowskyj, JA, Davis, C, Piccoli, L, Pascall, DJ, Dillen, J, Lytras, S, Czudnochowski, N, Shah, R, Meury, M, Jesudason, N, De Marco, A, Li, K, Bassi, J, O’Toole, A, Pinto, D, Colquhoun, RM, Culap, K, Jackson, B, Zatta, F, Rambaut, A, Jaconi, S, Sreenu, VB, Nix, J, Zhang, I, Jarrett, RF, Glass, WG, Beltramello, M, Nomikou, K, Pizzuto, M, Tong, L, Cameroni, E, Croll, TI, Johnson, N, Di Iulio, J, Wickenhagen, A, Ceschi, A, Harbison, AM, Mair, D, Ferrari, P, Smollett, K, Sallusto, F, Carmichael, S, Garzoni, C, Nichols, J, Galli, M, Lee, J, Merson, L, Et al.
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021