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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21006-9
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- Francis Crick Institute - Cancer Research UK [FC001078, FC001143]
- UK Medical Research Council [FC001078, FC001143]
- Wellcome Trust [FC001078, FC001143]
- 100 Top Talents Program of Sun Yat-sen University
- Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen [SZSM201911003]
- Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee [JCYJ20190809151611269]
The study suggests that coronaviruses from bats and pangolins may be implicated in the origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2, with spikes from a pangolin coronavirus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 showing strong binding to human and pangolin ACE2 receptors. The structural and binding similarities between the pangolin coronavirus spike and the closed form of SARS-CoV-2 spike indicate a potential connection between the two viruses.
Coronaviruses of bats and pangolins have been implicated in the origin and evolution of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2. We show that spikes from Guangdong Pangolin-CoVs, closely related to SARS-CoV-2, bind strongly to human and pangolin ACE2 receptors. We also report the cryo-EM structure of a Pangolin-CoV spike protein and show it adopts a fully-closed conformation and that, aside from the Receptor-Binding Domain, it resembles the spike of a bat coronavirus RaTG13 more than that of SARS-CoV-2. It has been suggested that pangolin coronaviruses may be the origin of SARS-CoV-2. Here the authors show that the Pangolin-CoV spike is structurally closely related to the closed form of SARS-CoV-2 spike and exhibits similar binding properties to human and pangolin ACE2; although neither spike binds bat ACE2.
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