Daoyu Zhang

The paper identifies a novel HKU4-related merbecovirus contaminant in rice RNA-seq datasets from Wuhan, China, and finds it shares genetic similarity with MERS-CoV and binds to human DPP4.

This study shows that TFAP2C deficiency in porcine embryos leads to developmental disorders by altering epigenetic modifications and gene expression.

The paper identifies a novel HKU4-related coronavirus in pangolin single-cell datasets and investigates its phylogenetic clade and potential contamination sources.