[HTML][HTML] Probable pangolin origin of SARS-CoV-2 associated with the COVID-19 outbreak

T Zhang, Q Wu, Z Zhang - Current biology, 2020 - cell.com
An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus
(SARS-CoV-2) began in the city of Wuhan in China and has widely spread worldwide …

Pangolin homology associated with 2019-nCoV

T Zhang, Q Wu, Z Zhang - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
To explore potential intermediate host of a novel coronavirus is vital to rapidly control
continuous COVID-19 spread. We found genomic and evolutionary evidences of the …

Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from?

T Leitner, S Kumar - Molecular biology and evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Identifying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the etiological agent of the current COVID-19
pandemic, may help us to avoid future epidemics of coronavirus and other zoonoses …

[HTML][HTML] Pangolins harbor SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses

GZ Han - Trends in Microbiology, 2020 - cell.com
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 has posed
a severe threat to global public health. Yet, the origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains mysterious …

[HTML][HTML] Isolation of SARS-CoV-2-related coronavirus from Malayan pangolins

K Xiao, J Zhai, Y Feng, N Zhou, X Zhang, JJ Zou, N Li… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The current outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) poses unprecedented
challenges to global health. The new coronavirus responsible for this outbreak—severe …

[HTML][HTML] Are pangolins the intermediate host of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)?

P Liu, JZ Jiang, XF Wan, Y Hua, L Li, J Zhou… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The outbreak of a novel corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the city of Wuhan, China
has resulted in more than 1.7 million laboratory confirmed cases all over the world. Recent …

Evidence of recombination in coronaviruses implicating pangolin origins of nCoV-2019

MC Wong, SJ Javornik Cregeen, NJ Ajami… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
SUMMARY A novel coronavirus (nCoV-2019) was the cause of an outbreak of respiratory
illness detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December of 2019. Genomic analyses …

Evolutionary history, potential intermediate animal host, and cross‐species analyses of SARS‐CoV‐2

X Li, J Zai, Q Zhao, Q Nie, Y Li, BT Foley… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate the evolutionary history of the recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) in China, a total of 70 genomes of virus strains from …

COVID-19: Time to exonerate the pangolin from the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to humans

R Frutos, J Serra-Cobo, T Chen, CA Devaux - Infection, Genetics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The emergence of COVID-19 has triggered many works aiming at identifying the animal
intermediate potentially involved in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to humans. The …

A second functional furin site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

Y Zhang, L Zhang, J Wu, Y Yu, S Liu, T Li… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The ubiquitously-expressed proteolytic enzyme furin is closely related to the pathogenesis of
SARS-CoV-2 and therefore represents a key target for antiviral therapy. Based on …