A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: a study of a family cluster

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A distinct name is needed for the new coronavirus

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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

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Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China

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A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China

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

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A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019

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Modeling the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Saudi Arabia

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Ready, Set, Fuse! The Coronavirus Spike Protein and Acquisition of Fusion Competence

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Cleavage and Activation of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Spike Protein by Human Airway Trypsin-Like Protease

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Evidence for a Common Evolutionary Origin of Coronavirus Spike Protein Receptor-Binding Subunits

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Proteolytic Activation of the Spike Protein at a Novel RRRR/S Motif Is Implicated in Furin-Dependent Entry, Syncytium Formation, and Infectivity of Coronavirus Infectious Bronchitis Virus in Cultured Cells

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Cathepsin L Functionally Cleaves the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Class I Fusion Protein Upstream of Rather than Adjacent to the Fusion Peptide

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