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SUBMITTER: Di Giacomo S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8242375 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Di Giacomo Simone S Mercatelli Daniele D Rakhimov Amir A Giorgi Federico M FM
Journal of medical virology 20210515 9
Several severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants have emerged, posing a renewed threat to coronavirus disease 2019 containment and to vaccine and drug efficacy. In this study, we analyzed more than 1,000,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences deposited up to April 27, 2021, on the GISAID public repository, and identified a novel T478K mutation located on the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein. The mutation is structurally located in the region of interaction with human receptor ACE2 ...[more]