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CELL DISCOVERY
卷 7, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41421-021-00282-1
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0505500, 2017YFC0909502]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB38040400]
- National Science Foundation of China [31771476, 31930022, 12026608, 61602460, 11701379]
- Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project [2017SHZDZX01]
- National Science and Technology Major Project of China [2017ZX10103009]
- Emergency Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee [20411950103]
- National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talent [BX20180331]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M642018]
The study analyzed the origin and evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant, suggesting a possible host in the Canidae family and experimental evidence showing that co-mutations significantly reduced viral replication.
The presence of SARS-CoV-2 mutants, including the emerging variant B.1.1.7, has raised great concerns in terms of pathogenesis, transmission, and immune escape. Characterizing SARS-CoV-2 mutations, evolution, and effects on infectivity and pathogenicity is crucial to the design of antibody therapies and surveillance strategies. Here, we analyzed 454,443 SARS-CoV-2 spike genes/proteins and 14,427 whole-genome sequences. We demonstrated that the early variant B.1.1.7 may not have evolved spontaneously in the United Kingdom or within human populations. Our extensive analyses suggested that Canidae, Mustelidae or Felidae, especially the Canidae family (for example, dog) could be a possible host of the direct progenitor of variant B.1.1.7. An alternative hypothesis is that the variant was simply yet to be sampled. Notably, the SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome represents a large number of potential co-mutations. In addition, we used an experimental SARS-CoV-2 reporter replicon system to introduce the dominant co-mutations NSP12_c14408t, 5 ' UTR_c241t, and NSP3_c3037t into the viral genome, and to monitor the effect of the mutations on viral replication. Our experimental results demonstrated that the co-mutations significantly attenuated the viral replication. The study provides valuable clues for discovering the transmission chains of variant B.1.1.7 and understanding the evolutionary process of SARS-CoV-2.
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