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SUBMITTER: Yuan HW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8005323 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yuan Hao-Wen HW Wen Hong-Ling HL
Archives of virology 20210328 7
Coronaviruses are a large family of important pathogens that cause human and animal diseases. At the end of 2019, a pneumonia epidemic caused by a novel coronavirus brought attention to coronaviruses. Exploring the interaction between the virus and its receptor will be helpful in developing preventive vaccines and therapeutic drugs. The coronavirus spike protein (S) plays an important role in both binding to receptors on host cells and fusion of the viral membrane with the host cell membrane. Th ...[more]