Emergence of Drift Variants That May Affect COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Antibody Treatment.
Pathogens
; 9(5)2020 Apr 26.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-116559
ABSTRACT
New coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) treatments and vaccines are under development to combat COVID-19. Several approaches are being used by scientists for investigation, including (1) various small molecule approaches targeting RNA polymerase, 3C-like protease, and RNA endonuclease; and (2) exploration of antibodies obtained from convalescent plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19. The coronavirus genome is highly prone to mutations that lead to genetic drift and escape from immune recognition; thus, it is imperative that sub-strains with different mutations are also accounted for during vaccine development. As the disease has grown to become a pandemic, B-cell and T-cell epitopes predicted from SARS coronavirus have been reported. Using the epitope information along with variants of the virus, we have found several variants which might cause drifts. Among such variants, 23403A>G variant (p.D614G) in spike protein B-cell epitope is observed frequently in European countries, such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France, but seldom observed in China.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Topics:
Vaccines
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Variants
Language:
English
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
PATHOGENS9050324
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