Structural and Functional Analysis of the D614G SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Variant

Leonid Yurkovetskiy; Xue Wang; Kristen E. Pascal; Christopher H. Tomkins-Tinch; Thomas Nyalile; Yetao Wang; Alina Baum; William E. Diehl; Ann Dauphin; Claudia Carbone; Kristen Veinotte; Shawn B. Egri; S. F. Schaffner; Jacob E. Lemieux; James B. Munro; Ashique Rafique; Abhi Barve; Pardis C. Sabeti; Christos A. Kyratsous; Natalya V. Dudkina; Kuang Shen; Jeremy Luban

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.032

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BiologyPlasma protein bindingVirologyLipid bilayer fusionCell biologyFusion proteinRecombinant DNAVirusBiochemistry

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Year: 2020
Type: article
Volume: 183
Issue: 3
Pages: 739-751.e8
Citations: 1092
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                                    Leonid Yurkovetskiy, 
                                
                                    Xue Wang, 
                                
                                    Kristen E. Pascal
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2020). 
                            Structural and Functional Analysis of the D614G SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Variant. 
                            Cell
                            , 183
                            (3)
                            , 739-751.e8.
                            https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.032
                        

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DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.032