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SUBMITTER: Ortega JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8779645 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20211231 1
The rise of SARS-CoV-2 variants, with changes that could be related to an increased virus pathogenicity, have received the interest of the scientific and medical community. In this study, we evaluated the changes that occurred in the viral spike of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and whether these changes modulate the interactions with the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) host receptor. The mutations associated with the Omicron variant were retrieved from the GISAID and covariants.org datab ...[more]