Letter Ahead of print
PubMed: 42440073 DOI: 10.1007/s11427-026-3412-0
Merbecoviruses exploit APN for entry: expanding the receptor toolkit of betacoronaviruses.
Sci China Life Sci
Authors: Yu Wang, Jie Chen, Wanjie Song, Xin-Xin Li, Xing Ma, Qi Cui, Michael Veit, Andres Merits, Marina Gulyaeva, Ivan Sobolev, Xiaofeng Zhai, Xiaoguang Zhang, Yu Deng, Houqi Jiao, Shuo Su, Ningning Wang
Affiliations
- Sanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
- Institute for Virology, Center for Infection Medicine, Veterinary Faculty, Free University Berlin, Berlin, 14163, Germany.
- Institute of Bioengineering, University of Tartu, Tartu, 50411, Estonia.
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
- Research Institute of Virology, Federal Research Center of Fundamental and Translational Medicine, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630060, Russia.
- Sanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
MeSH
Betacoronavirus