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Increasing the frequency of omicron variant mutations boosts the immune response and may reduce the virus virulence
The coronavirus has posed a serious threat to the world since its discovery in Wuhan in 2019. Beta, gamma, delta, and the final omicron variants have emerged as a result of several mutations in the virion structure. The Australian Omicron S protein variant contains 37 mutations out of a total of 67...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783435/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35077833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105400 |
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description | The coronavirus has posed a serious threat to the world since its discovery in Wuhan in 2019. Beta, gamma, delta, and the final omicron variants have emerged as a result of several mutations in the virion structure. The Australian Omicron S protein variant contains 37 mutations out of a total of 67 mutations. According to preliminary data from South Africa, Omicron variant infection is not associated with any particular symptoms. The purpose of this research was to determine how changes in the structure of the S protein alter the protein's interaction with the ACE2 receptor. The Omicron variant stimulates the immune response more than the wild strain. |
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spelling | pubmed-87834352022-01-24 Increasing the frequency of omicron variant mutations boosts the immune response and may reduce the virus virulence Dawood, Ali Adel Microb Pathog Article The coronavirus has posed a serious threat to the world since its discovery in Wuhan in 2019. Beta, gamma, delta, and the final omicron variants have emerged as a result of several mutations in the virion structure. The Australian Omicron S protein variant contains 37 mutations out of a total of 67 mutations. According to preliminary data from South Africa, Omicron variant infection is not associated with any particular symptoms. The purpose of this research was to determine how changes in the structure of the S protein alter the protein's interaction with the ACE2 receptor. The Omicron variant stimulates the immune response more than the wild strain. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-03 2022-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8783435/ /pubmed/35077833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105400 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Dawood, Ali Adel Increasing the frequency of omicron variant mutations boosts the immune response and may reduce the virus virulence |
title | Increasing the frequency of omicron variant mutations boosts the immune response and may reduce the virus virulence |
title_full | Increasing the frequency of omicron variant mutations boosts the immune response and may reduce the virus virulence |
title_fullStr | Increasing the frequency of omicron variant mutations boosts the immune response and may reduce the virus virulence |
title_full_unstemmed | Increasing the frequency of omicron variant mutations boosts the immune response and may reduce the virus virulence |
title_short | Increasing the frequency of omicron variant mutations boosts the immune response and may reduce the virus virulence |
title_sort | increasing the frequency of omicron variant mutations boosts the immune response and may reduce the virus virulence |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783435/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35077833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105400 |
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