Loss of Spike N370 glycosylation as an important evolutionary event for the enhanced infectivity of SARS-CoV-2
Shuyuan Zhang, Qingtai Liang, Xinheng He, Chongchong Zhao, Wenlin Ren, Ziqing Yang, Ziyi Wang, Qiang Ding, Haiteng Deng, Tong Wang, Linqi Zhang, Xinquan Wang
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BiologyInfectivitySevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakVirologyGlycosylationSpike ProteinSars virusSpike (software development)Event (particle physics)BetacoronavirusComputational biologyGeneticsVirusOutbreakInfectious disease (medical specialty)Computer scienceMedicineSoftware engineeringPhysicsDiseasePathologyQuantum mechanicsSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiologyAnimal Virus Infections Studies