Conserved antigenic sites between MERS-CoV and Bat-coronavirus are revealed through sequence analysis.
Refat SharminAbul B M M K Islam
Published in: Source code for biology and medicine (2016)
This sharing suggests that in case of pathogenicity MERS-CoV is more closely related to HKU5 bat-CoV than HKU4 bat-CoV. The conserved epitopes indicates their evolutionary relationship and ancestry of pathogenicity.