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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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SARS-CoV-2 Subgenomic RNAs: Characterization, Utility, and Perspectives.

Samuel Long
- 24 Sep 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes the recent progress on SARS-CoV-2 sgRNA identification, characterization, and application as a viral replication marker, and potential future research areas of interest are discussed.
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Whole-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 reveals the detection of G614 variant in Pakistan.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the sequencing, genomic characterization, and phylogenetic analysis of five SARS-CoV-2 strains isolated from patients in Pakistan and used NEBNext Ultra II Directional RNA Library Prep kit for Illumina (NEW ENGLAND BioLabs Inc., MA, US) and Illumina iSeq 100 instrument (Illumina, San Diego, US).
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Impact of the B.1.1.7 variant on neutralizing monoclonal antibodies recognizing diverse epitopes on SARS-CoV-2 Spike

TL;DR: In this article, neutralizing antibodies targeting subdominant epitopes of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike receptor binding domain (RBD) have been found to have a glycan-dependant neutralization activity.
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Inter-domain communication in SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins controls protease-triggered cell entry

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify an inter-monomer β sheet structure that facilitates NTD-to-FD transmissions and subsequent fusion activation, indicating allosteric inter-domain control of fusion activation.
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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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