Mass Spectrometric detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus in scrapings of the epithelium of the nasopharynx of infected patients via Nucleocapsid N protein
Е. Н. Николаев, Maria I. Indeykina, Alexander G. Brzhozovskiy, Anna E. Bugrova, Alexey S. Kononikhin, Natalia L. Starodubtseva, Evgeniy V. Petrotchenko, Grigoriy I. Kovalev, Christoph H. Borchers, Gennady Tikhonovich Sukhikh
The paper develops a mass-spectrometry-based method to detect SARS-CoV-2 virus by identifying the nucleocapsid N protein in nasopharyngeal swabs, showing high sensitivity and simplicity.
Journal of Proteome Research · Aug 10, 2020Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology