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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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Distinct Phenotypes of SARS-CoV-2 Isolates Reveal Viral Traits Critical for Replication in Primary Human Respiratory Cells

TL;DR: Overall, this study uncovers natural sequence features in the SARS-CoV-2 genome that determine efficient virus replication and tropism for the human respiratory epithelium.
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Deciphering the Subtype Differentiation History of SARS-CoV-2 Based on a New Breadth-First Searching Optimized Alignment Method Over a Global Data Set of 24,768 Sequences

TL;DR: In this article, the authors optimized multiple sequence alignment using a conserved sequence search algorithm to align 24,768 sequences from the GISAID data set, and a phylogenetic tree was constructed using the maximum likelihood (ML) method.
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Influence of SARS-CoV-2 variants’ spike glycoprotein and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (nsp12) mutations on remdesivir docking residues

TL;DR: The docking position of remdesivir with the S and RdRp proteins was shown to be unaffected by mutations in the missing loops, and the docking features of the flexible ligand with the stiff receptors was investigated in the present study.
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Host–pathogen dynamics in longitudinal clinical specimens from patients with COVID-19

TL;DR: In this article , the authors performed sequencing of 49 longitudinal SARS-CoV-2-positive samples from 20 patients in Washington State collected between March and September of 2020, and found that there was negligible change in SARSCoV2 consensus sequences over time, but identified a number of nonsynonymous variants at low frequencies across the genome.
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Structural heterogeneity and precision of implications drawn from cryo-electron microscopy structures: SARS-CoV-2 spike-protein mutations as a test case

TL;DR: In this paper , the effects of SARS-CoV-2 S-protein mutations based on experimental cryo-electron microscopy structures have been abundant during the pandemic.
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TL;DR: SAMtools as discussed by the authors implements various utilities for post-processing alignments in the SAM format, such as indexing, variant caller and alignment viewer, and thus provides universal tools for processing read alignments.
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A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019.

TL;DR: Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily, which is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans.
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