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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 highly immunogenic live-attenuated vaccine candidate prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in hamsters

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used a serial passaging of a SARS-CoV-2 clinical isolate in Vero cells to generate a live-attenuated vaccine candidate against COVID-19.
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The differential expression of the ACE2 receptor across ages and gender explains the differential lethality of SARS-Cov-2 and suggests possible therapy

TL;DR: The results support the suggestion that drugs that enhance the expression of ACE2, such as ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, constitute a promising therapy against the most adverse effects of CoViD-19, and ACE2 is a candidate prognostic factor for detecting population that needs stronger protection.
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Photonics enabled intelligence system to identify SARS-CoV 2 mutations

TL;DR: In this article , the authors proposed a framework of photonics based on AI for identifying and sorting SARS-CoV 2 mutations, and compared the omicron mutation with other variants.
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SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 caused HLA-A2+ CD8+ T cell epitope mutations for impaired cellular immune response

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the immune properties of the HLA-A2 restricted CD8+ T cell epitopes containing mutations from B.1.7, and furthermore performed a comprehensive analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 specific CD8-T cell responses.
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SARS-CoV-2 spike S375F mutation characterizes the Omicron BA.1 variant

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors showed that the representative characteristics of the Omicron spike are determined by its receptor-binding domain, and further elucidated that the F375 residue forms an interprotomer pi-pi interaction with the H505 residue in another protomer in the spike trimer, which confers the attenuated spike cleavage efficiency and fusogenicity.
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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

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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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