Identification of a novel lineage bat SARS-related coronaviruses that use bat ACE2 receptor.
Emerg Microbes Infect
; 10(1): 1507-1514, 2021 Dec.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1310873
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ABSTRACT
Severe respiratory disease coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been the most devastating disease COVID-19 in the century. One of the unsolved scientific questions of SARS-CoV-2 is the animal origin of this virus. Bats and pangolins are recognized as the most probable reservoir hosts that harbour highly similar SARS-CoV-2 related viruses (SARSr-CoV-2). This study identified a novel lineage of SARSr-CoVs, including RaTG15 and seven other viruses, from bats at the same location where we found RaTG13 in 2015. Although RaTG15 and the related viruses share 97.2% amino acid sequence identities with SARS-CoV-2 in the conserved ORF1b region, it only shows less than 77.6% nucleotide identity to all known SARSr-CoVs at the genome level, thus forming a distinct lineage in the Sarbecovirus phylogenetic tree. We found that the RaTG15 receptor-binding domain (RBD) can bind to ACE2 from Rhinolophus affinis, Malayan pangolin, and use it as an entry receptor, except for ACE2 from humans. However, it contains a short deletion and has different key residues responsible for ACE2 binding. In addition, we showed that none of the known viruses in bat SARSr-CoV-2 lineage discovered uses human ACE2 as efficiently as the pangolin-derived SARSr-CoV-2 or some viruses in the SARSr-CoV-1 lineage. Therefore, further systematic and longitudinal studies in bats are needed to prevent future spillover events caused by SARSr-CoVs or to understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2 better.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Chiroptera
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Cell Lineage
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus
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Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2
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SARS-CoV-2
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
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Systematic review/Meta Analysis
Limits:
Animals
Language:
English
Journal:
Emerg Microbes Infect
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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