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Evidence for a long-range RNA-RNA interaction between ORF8 and Spike of SARS-CoV-2
Okiemute Beatrice Omoru, Filipe Pereira, Sarath Chandra Janga, Amirhossein Manzourolajdad
The paper identifies a unique long-range RNA-RNA interaction between Spike and ORF8 in SARS-CoV-2 that is not present in SARS-CoV, supported by sequence variation and in-silico predictions.
DOI 10.1101/2021.11.09.467911