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Antoni G Wrobel1, Donald J Benton2, Pengqi Xu3,4, Lesley J Calder5, Annabel Borg6, Chloë Roustan6, Stephen R Martin3, Peter B Rosenthal5, John J Skehel3, Steven J Gamblin7.
Abstract
Coronaviruses of bats and pangolins have been implicated in the origin and evolution of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2. We show that spikes from Guangdong Pangolin-CoVs, closely related to SARS-CoV-2, bind strongly to human and pangolin ACE2 receptors. We also report the cryo-EM structure of a Pangolin-CoV spike protein and show it adopts a fully-closed conformation and that, aside from the Receptor-Binding Domain, it resembles the spike of a bat coronavirus RaTG13 more than that of SARS-CoV-2.Entities:
Year: 2021 PMID: 33547281 PMCID: PMC7864994 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21006-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Commun ISSN: 2041-1723 Impact factor: 14.919