Four SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequences from Late April in Stockholm, Sweden, Reveal a Rare Mutation in the Spike Protein.
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SUBMITTER: Soratto TAT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7453295 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
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Four SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequences from Late April in Stockholm, Sweden, Reveal a Rare Mutation in the Spike Protein.
Soratto Tatiany Aparecida Teixeira TAT Darban Hamid H Bjerkner Annelie A Coorens Maarten M Albert Jan J Allander Tobias T Andersson Björn B
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Here, we report four coding-complete severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genome sequences from Stockholm, Sweden, sampled in late April 2020. A rare variant at bp 23463 of the SARS-CoV-2 genome was found, which corresponds to the S1 subunit of the spike protein, changing an arginine (R) residue to histidine (H). ...[more]
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