TWiV 954: Speculating sarbecovirus spillovers with Michael Letko
This Week in Virology
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Identifying the Cell Receptor for SARS-CoV-2 in Nature Microbiology
SARS-CoV-2 was the first coronavirus to be identified as a receptor. Scientists were able to identify it by using gene synthesis, which is much cheaper than making whole spike sequences. They can now use this chimeric spike protein on other viruses for pseudotyping or so whatever they're infecting them with.
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