A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research
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...year and how these plasmids have been used to accelerate COVID-19 research in other labs.
Spike protein...depends on its spike protein to bind ACE2, the host cellular receptor. To more easily study the spike variants... investigate how the virus interacts with human cells. Addgene’s mammalian target plasmids express these...for SARS-CoV-2 entry into human lung epithelial cells (Biering et al., 2021). In their search, they found...packaging) and contain an IRES-Puro marker for stable cell clone selection. For more information on these plasmids... during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our mission to accelerate research through sharing reagents has never been...Bajic G, Harrison SC, Wesemann DR (2021) Memory B cell repertoire for recognition of evolving SARS-CoV-...