[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 entry into cells

CB Jackson, M Farzan, B Chen, H Choe - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
The unprecedented public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic caused
by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been …

The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

K Tao, PL Tzou, J Nouhin, RK Gupta… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The past several months have witnessed the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with novel
spike protein mutations that are influencing the epidemiological and clinical aspects of the …

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum algorithms

K Bharti, A Cervera-Lierta, TH Kyaw, T Haug… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
A universal fault-tolerant quantum computer that can efficiently solve problems such as
integer factorization and unstructured database search requires millions of qubits with low …

BNT162b2 vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies and poly-specific T cells in humans

U Sahin, A Muik, I Vogler, E Derhovanessian, LM Kranz… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract BNT162b2, a nucleoside-modified mRNA formulated in lipid nanoparticles that
encodes the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (S) stabilized in its prefusion conformation, has …

The furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is required for transmission in ferrets

TP Peacock, DH Goldhill, J Zhou, L Baillon… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 entry requires sequential cleavage of the spike glycoprotein at the S1/S2 and
the S2ʹ cleavage sites to mediate membrane fusion. SARS-CoV-2 has a polybasic insertion …

The emergence, genomic diversity and global spread of SARS-CoV-2

J Li, S Lai, GF Gao, W Shi - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Since the first cases of COVID-19 were documented in Wuhan, China in 2019, the world has
witnessed a devastating global pandemic, with more than 238 million cases, nearly 5 million …

Loss of furin cleavage site attenuates SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis

BA Johnson, X **e, AL Bailey, B Kalveram… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—a new coronavirus that
has led to a worldwide pandemic—has a furin cleavage site (PRRAR) in its spike protein …

mRNA vaccination boosts cross-variant neutralizing antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 infection

L Stamatatos, J Czartoski, YH Wan, LJ Homad, V Rubin… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants have
raised concerns about resistance to neutralizing antibodies elicited by previous infection or …

Evolution of enhanced innate immune evasion by SARS-CoV-2

LG Thorne, M Bouhaddou, AK Reuschl… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern suggests viral adaptation to enhance
human-to-human transmission,. Although much effort has focused on the characterization of …

Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals

BQ Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Topological semimetals (TSMs) are characterized by bulk band crossings in their electronic
structures, which are expected to give rise to gapless electronic excitations and topological …