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Structure and binding properties of Pangolin-CoV spike glycoprotein inform the evolution of SARS-CoV-2

Coronaviruses of bats and pangolins have been implicated in the origin and evolution of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2. We show that spikes from Guangdong Pangolin-CoVs, closely related to SARS-CoV-2, bind strongly to human and pangolin ACE2 receptors. We also report the cryo-EM structure of a Pangolin-CoV...

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Autores principales: Wrobel, Antoni G., Benton, Donald J., Xu, Pengqi, Calder, Lesley J., Borg, Annabel, Roustan, Chloë, Martin, Stephen R., Rosenthal, Peter B., Skehel, John J., Gamblin, Steven J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7864994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33547281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21006-9
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Sumario:Coronaviruses of bats and pangolins have been implicated in the origin and evolution of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2. We show that spikes from Guangdong Pangolin-CoVs, closely related to SARS-CoV-2, bind strongly to human and pangolin ACE2 receptors. We also report the cryo-EM structure of a Pangolin-CoV spike protein and show it adopts a fully-closed conformation and that, aside from the Receptor-Binding Domain, it resembles the spike of a bat coronavirus RaTG13 more than that of SARS-CoV-2.