Can the RBD mutation R346X provide an additional fitness to the “variant soup,” including offspring of BQ and XBB of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron for the antibody resistance?

• Srijan Chatterjee,
• Manojit Bhattacharya,
• Kuldeep Dhama,
• Sang-Soo Lee,
• Chiranjib Chakraborty

Affiliations

Srijan Chatterjee

Institute for Skeletal Aging & Orthopaedic Surgery, Hallym University-Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do 24252, Republic of Korea

Manojit Bhattacharya

Department of Zoology, Fakir Mohan University, Vyasa Vihar, Balasore, Odisha 756020, India

Kuldeep Dhama

Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh 243122, India

Sang-Soo Lee

Institute for Skeletal Aging & Orthopaedic Surgery, Hallym University-Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do 24252, Republic of Korea

Chiranjib Chakraborty

Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Adamas University, Kolkata, West Bengal 700126, India; Correspondence: Chiranjib Chakraborty, PhD, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Adamas University, Kolkata, West Bengal 700126, India.