Reply to Behnam and Klein: Potential role of the His-tag in C-terminal His-tagged SARS-CoV-2 main protease

Affiliations

• ¹ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Design and Evaluation, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China.
• ² Molecular Modeling and Biopharmaceutical Center, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536; zhan@uky.edu wx8399@ouc.edu.cn luohb77@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
• ³ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536.
• ⁴ Center for Innovative Marine Drug Screening & Evaluation, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China; zhan@uky.edu wx8399@ouc.edu.cn luohb77@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
• ⁵ Marine Biomedical Research Institute of Qingdao, Qingdao 266100, China.
• ⁶ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Design and Evaluation, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China; zhan@uky.edu wx8399@ouc.edu.cn luohb77@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
• ⁷ Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources of Ministry of Education, School of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.