Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells

S Temmam, K Vongphayloth, E Baquero, S Munier… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of SARS-CoV-2-related
viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats,,–, including the closest virus from R. affinis, RaTG13 …

Coronaviruses with a SARS-CoV-2-like receptor-binding domain allowing ACE2-mediated entry into human cells isolated from bats of Indochinese peninsula

S Temmam, K Vongphayloth, EB Salazar, S Munier… - 2021 - hal.science
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of various SARS-CoV-2-
related viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats, including the closest virus from R. affinis …

A novel SARS-CoV-2 related coronavirus in bats from Cambodia

D Delaune, V Hul, EA Karlsson, A Hassanin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of the origin and reservoir of the coronavirus responsible for the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is still fragmentary. To date, the closest relatives to SARS-CoV …

Close relatives of MERS-CoV in bats use ACE2 as their functional receptors

Q Xiong, L Cao, C Ma, MA Tortorici, C Liu, J Si, P Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and several bat coronaviruses
use dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) as an entry receptor,,–. However, the receptor for …

Addendum: A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

P Zhou, XL Yang, XG Wang, B Hu, L Zhang, W Zhang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Here we provide further information about the bat SARS-related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV)
strain RaTG13 reported in our Article. Between 1 July and 1 October 2012, we received 13 …

Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor

XY Ge, JL Li, XL Yang, AA Chmura, G Zhu, JH Epstein… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The 2002–3 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-
CoV) was one of the most significant public health events in recent history. An ongoing …

A novel bat coronavirus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 contains natural insertions at the S1/S2 cleavage site of the spike protein

H Zhou, X Chen, T Hu, J Li, H Song, Y Liu, P Wang… - Current biology, 2020 - cell.com
The unprecedented pandemic of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2,
in China and beyond has had major public health impacts on a global scale [1, 2]. Although …

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 …

ACE2 receptor usage reveals variation in susceptibility to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection among bat species

H Yan, H Jiao, Q Liu, Z Zhang, Q Xiong… - Nature ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Bats are the suggested natural hosts for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
(SARS-CoV) and the causal agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses

H Zhou, J Ji, X Chen, Y Bi, J Li, Q Wang, T Hu, H Song… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the discovery of animal coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2, the evolutionary
origins of this virus are elusive. We describe a meta-transcriptomic study of 411 bat samples …