SARS-CoV-2 Variants, Spike Mutations and Immune Escape

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The authors summarize the literature on mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, the primary antigen, focusing on their impacts on antigenicity and contextualizing them in the protein structure, and discuss them in the context of observed mutation frequencies in global sequence datasets.
[Nature Reviews Microbiology]
Harvey, W. T., Carabelli, A. M., Jackson, B., Gupta, R. K., Thomson, E. C., Harrison, E. M., Ludden, C., Reeve, R., Rambaut, A., Peacock, S. J., & Robertson, D. L. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-021-00573-0 Cite
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