Antigenic evolution on global scale reveals potential natural selection of SARS-CoV-2 by pre-existing cross-reactive T cell immunity
Chengdong Zhang, Xuanxuan Jin, Xianyang Chen, Qiu Li, Qibin Leng, Tianyi Qiu
This study analyzes SARS-CoV-2 mutation patterns to show how immune system pressure drives mutations, particularly in non-structural and Spike proteins, to escape T and B cell immunity.
Frontiers in Microbiology · May 18, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics