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Jul 2026
SARS-CoV-2 Spike H655Y drives protease preference but does not dictate cellular tropism
This work reframes the understanding of coronavirus spike evolution, revealing that tissue tropism operates through mechanisms fundamentally distinct from those dictating protease preference, and that protease preference and tissue tropism are mechanistically uncoupled.
Diego Cantoni, Wilhelm Furnon, S. Little et al.
· bioRxiv · 0 citations