Chinese scientists have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, capable of infecting humans-raising fresh concerns ...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) are the first to conduct a molecular-level structural analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant’s spike protein in complex with ...

The spike protein of the coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, binds to ACE2, a receptor on the host cells ... and long-range interactions among amino acid residues, Momeni said. The Omicron variant of the ...

and omicron variants. Intranasal delivery of ACE2-antivirus has been shown to save human-ACE2 transgenic mice from lethal infection by multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains—illustrating its potential as a ...

Working with the omicron variant, the inhibitory effect of ... "Given the working principle for lysoTRAP's recognition of SARS-CoV-2 is the ACE2 protein, any infective variants that bind ACE2 ...

The researchers compared four spike protein variants: Wuhan, Omicron, and two Omicron-based variants ... which was hypothesized to be involved in binding with ACE2, had not yet been identified by ...