Avoiding culture shock with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

Abstract

When culturing SARS-CoV-2 in the laboratory it is vital to avoid deletions in the gene for the spike protein that could affect the interpretation of experiments.

Keywords

• COVID-19
• SARS-CoV-2
• cell culture adaptation
• furin cleavage site
• serine proteases
• airway organoids