A novel bat coronavirus reveals natural insertions at the S1/S2 cleavage site of the Spike protein and a possible recombinant origin of HCoV-19

H Zhou, X Chen, T Hu, J Li, H Song, Y Liu, P Wang… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The unprecedented epidemic of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus, HCoV-19, in
China and beyond has caused public health concern at a global scale. Although bats are …

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 …

[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 …

[PDF][PDF] Bat origin of a new human coronavirus: there and back again

X Li, Y Song, G Wong, J Cui - Sci China Life Sci, 2020 - researchgate.net
A novel coronavirus reported to cause pneumonia in 41 people during December 2019 in
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China, was identified and designated as the 2019 …

Evolutionary perspectives on novel coronaviruses identified in pneumonia cases in China

X Wei, X Li, J Cui - National Science Review, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Coronaviruses, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), are highly transmissible …

The novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2: From a zoonotic infection to coronavirus disease 2019

R dos Santos Bezerra, IN Valença… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The novel coronavirus (CoV), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)‐CoV‐2 is an
international public health emergency. Until now, the intermediate host and mechanisms of …

Coronaviruses in wild animals sampled in and around Wuhan at the beginning of COVID-19 emergence

W Wang, JH Tian, X Chen, RX Hu, XD Lin… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Over the last several decades, no emerging virus has had a profound impact on the world as
the SARS-CoV-2 that emerged at the end of 2019 has done. To know where severe acute …

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 …

Determination of the factors responsible for the tropism of SARS-CoV-2-related bat coronaviruses to Rhinolophus bat ACE2

S Fujita, Y Kosugi, I Kimura, K Tokunaga, J Ito… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Differences in host angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) genes may affect the host
range of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses (SC2r-CoVs) and further determine the tropism …

Identification of diverse bat alphacoronaviruses and betacoronaviruses in China provides new insights into the evolution and origin of coronavirus-related diseases

Y Han, J Du, H Su, J Zhang, G Zhu, S Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002, Middle East respiratory
syndrome in 2012 and fatal swine acute diarrhea syndrome in 2017 caused serious …