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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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A self-amplifying RNA vaccine against COVID-19 with long-term room-temperature stability

TL;DR: In this article , the authors developed an easily-manufactured, potent self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 that is stable at room temperature.
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Engineered disulfide reveals structural dynamics of locked SARS-CoV-2 spike

TL;DR: In this paper , a SARS-CoV-2 S protein construct called S-R/x3 was constructed to stabilize the lock-1 and lock-2 conformation.
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SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding mutations and antibody contact sites

TL;DR: In this paper, a bioinformatics platform was developed to analyze 104 193 Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISD) data sequences acquired on 15 October 2020, with a majority of sequences (96%) containing point mutations.
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Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Over Time Reveals Increasing Prevalence of Variants in the Spike Protein and RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase

TL;DR: In this article, a structural analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was performed at the protein structural level and examined longitudinally in order to identify sequence and strain variants that are emerging over time.
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New laboratory evidence for the association between endothelial dysfunction and COVID‐19 disease progression

TL;DR: A multicenter retrospective cohort of 966 COVID‐19 patients from three hospitals in Wuhan, China found that deteriorated patients exhibited more severe multiorgan damage, coagulation dysfunction, and extensive inflammation, which offers a rationale for targeting endothelial dysfunction as a therapeutic strategy for CO VID‐19.
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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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MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

TL;DR: This version of MAFFT has several new features, including options for adding unaligned sequences into an existing alignment, adjustment of direction in nucleotide alignment, constrained alignment and parallel processing, which were implemented after the previous major update.
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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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