Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Characterization of spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 on virus entry and its immune cross-reactivity with SARS-CoV

  • Xiuyuan Ou,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Xiaobo Lei,
  • Pei Li,
  • Dan Mi,
  • Lili Ren,
  • Li Guo,
  • Ruixuan Guo,
  • Ting Chen,
  • Jiaxin Hu,
  • Zichun Xiang,
  • Zhixia Mu,
  • Xing Chen,
  • Jieyong Chen,
  • Keping Hu,
  • Qi Jin,
  • Jianwei Wang,
  • Zhaohui Qian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15562-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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SARS-CoV-2 has spread globally. Here, the authors characterize the entry pathway of SARS-CoV-2, show that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is less stable than that of SARS-CoV, and show limited cross-neutralization activities between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 sera.