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Structural and Functional Analysis of the D614G SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Variant.

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It is shown that D614G was more infectious than the ancestral form on human lung cells, colon cells, and on cells rendered permissive by ectopic expression of human ACE2 or of ACE2 orthologs from various mammals, including Chinese rufous horseshoe bat and Malayan pangolin.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2020-10-29 and is currently open access. It has received 840 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Virion membrane & Protein structure.

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Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 and implications for therapeutic development.

TL;DR: In this paper, structural features of SARS-CoV-2 from the whole viral particle to the individual viral proteins and discuss their functions as well as their potential as targets for therapeutic interventions.
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Immune Evasion of SARS-CoV-2 Emerging Variants: What Have We Learnt So Far?

TL;DR: The VOCs characteristics, their mutational patterns, and the role mutations play in immune evasion are summarized in this review.
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The Spike D614G mutation increases SARS-CoV-2 infection of multiple human cell types.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed site-directed mutagenesis on wild-type human-codon-optimized Spike to introduce the D614G variant, which is in linkage disequilibrium with an ORF1b protein variant (P314L).
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