A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research
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Blog Post
Published
July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
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Spike protein, variants, and pseudotyping
The SARS-CoV-2 virus depends on its spike protein to bind...easily study the spike variants, scientists have developed ways to pseudotype the spike protein onto another...This version of the spike protein was developed based on 100 structure-guided spike designs and has improved...improved protein yields and stability. This stabilized spike protein can be used for the development of...pseudotyping lentivirus with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. They deposited the plasmids used for this study... which include a C-terminal deletion in the spike protein to improve expression and pseudotyping efficiency...(Tong et al., 2021).
Another version of the spike protein, called HexoPro, was developed by Jason McLellan...