3D Protein Modeling Suggests Why COVID-19 Infects Some Animals, but not Others (IMAGE)

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3D Protein Modeling Suggests Why COVID-19 Infects Some Animals, but not Others

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3D structure model of the receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 (in blue) interacting with the human ACE2 receptor (in gray). Amino acids important to the interaction, which are present only in COVID-susceptible animal species are highlighted in yellow. Sugars bound to the proteins are shown in pink.

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Rodrigues et al. 2020 (CC-BY 2.0)

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