Virological characteristics of a SARS-CoV-2-related bat coronavirus, BANAL-20-236.
Fujita S, Plianchaisuk A, Deguchi S, Ito H, Nao N, Wang L, Nasser H, Tamura T, Kimura I, Kashima Y, Suzuki R, Suzuki S, Kida I, Tsuda M, Oda Y, Hashimoto R, Watanabe Y, Uriu K, Yamasoba D, Guo Z, Hinay AA Jr, Kosugi Y, Chen L, Pan L, Kaku Y, Chu H, Donati F, Temmam S, Eloit M, Yamamoto Y, Nagamoto T, Asakura H, Nagashima M, Sadamasu K, Yoshimura K, Suzuki Y; Genotype to Phenotype Japan (G2P-Japan) Consortium; Ito J, Ikeda T, Tanaka S, Matsuno K, Fukuhara T, Takayama K, Sato K.
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EBioMedicine. 2024 Jun;104:105181. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105181. Epub 2024 Jun 4.
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Recently, BANAL-20-236 (B236) was isolated from a rectal swab of Malayan horseshoe bat and was found to lack a furin cleavage site (FCS) in the spike (S) protein. The comparison of its virological characteristics with FCS-deleted SARS-CoV-2 (SC2deltaFCS) has not been condu …
Recently, BANAL-20-236 (B236) was isolated from a rectal swab of Malayan horseshoe bat and was found to lack a furin cleavage site (FCS) in …