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Comment
. 2020 Jun;35(3):337-339.
doi: 10.1007/s12250-020-00212-7. Epub 2020 Mar 20.

A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

Qiong Wang  1 , Ye Qiu  1 , Jin-Yan Li  1 , Zhi-Jian Zhou  1 , Ce-Heng Liao  1 , Xing-Yi Ge  2
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A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

Qiong Wang et al. Virol Sin. 2020 Jun.
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Fig. 1
The predicted cleavage site between S1/S2 in the spike protein of 2019-nCoV. A The PRRA insertion (underlined) in the S of 2019-nCoV. B Prediction of a furin-specific cleavage site (indicated by a red arrow) in the S protein of 2019-nCoV.
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