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Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely Related to the Direct Progenitor of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.

Xing-Lou YangBen HuBo WangMei-Niang WangQian ZhangWei ZhangLi-Jun WuXing-Yi GeYun-Zhi ZhangPeter DaszakLin-Fa WangZheng-Li Shi
Published in: Journal of virology (2015)
We report the isolation and characterization of a novel bat coronavirus which is much closer to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in genomic sequence than others previously reported, particularly in its S gene. Cell entry and susceptibility studies indicated that this virus can use ACE2 as a receptor and infect animal and human cell lines. Our results provide further evidence of the bat origin of the SARS-CoV and highlight the likelihood of future bat coronavirus emergence in humans.
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