Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—a new coronavirus that
has led to a worldwide pandemic 1 —has a furin cleavage site (PRRAR) in its spike protein …

Recombination is proposed to be critical for coronavirus (CoV) diversity and emergence of
SARS-CoV-2 and other zoonotic CoVs. While RNA recombination is required during normal …

SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in a global pandemic and shutdown economies around the world.
Sequence analysis indicates that the novel coronavirus (CoV) has an insertion of a furin …

While SARS-CoV-2 continues to adapt for human infection and transmission, genetic variation
outside of the spike gene remains largely unexplored. This study investigates a highly …

The emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has
resulted in a pandemic causing significant damage to public health and the economy. Efforts …

Dengue virus assembly requires cleavage of viral C-prM-E polyprotein into three structural
proteins (capsid, premembrane, and envelope), packaging of viral RNA with C protein into …

The furin cleavage site (FCS), an unusual feature in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, has
been spotlighted as a factor key to facilitating infection and pathogenesis by increasing spike …

How microbe–microbe interactions dictate microbial complexity in the mosquito gut is unclear.
Previously we found that, Serratia, a gut symbiont that alters vector competence and is …

High-throughput genomics of SARS-CoV-2 is essential to characterize virus evolution and
to identify adaptations that affect pathogenicity or transmission. While single-nucleotide …

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants emerged in 2022 with> 30 novel amino acid mutations in the
spike protein alone. While most studies focus on receptor binding domain changes, …