A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

Virol Sin. 2020 Jun;35(3):337-339. doi: 10.1007/s12250-020-00212-7. Epub 2020 Mar 20.

Authors

Qiong Wang¹, Ye Qiu¹, Jin-Yan Li¹, Zhi-Jian Zhou¹, Ce-Heng Liao¹, Xing-Yi Ge²

Affiliations

¹ Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Virology, Institute of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China.
² Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Virology, Institute of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China. xyge@hnu.edu.cn.

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Chiroptera*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus*
Humans
Pandemics*
Peptide Hydrolases
Pneumonia, Viral*
SARS-CoV-2
Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus

Substances

Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
Peptide Hydrolases