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SUBMITTER: Watanabe Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7199903 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20200504 6501
The emergence of the betacoronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), represents a considerable threat to global human health. Vaccine development is focused on the principal target of the humoral immune response, the spike (S) glycoprotein, which mediates cell entry and membrane fusion. The SARS-CoV-2 S gene encodes 22 N-linked glycan sequons per protomer, which likely play a role in protein folding and im ...[more]