Selected article for: "evolutionary positive selection and high similarity"

Author: Yonghua Wu
Title: Strong evolutionary convergence of receptor-binding protein spike between COVID-19 and SARS-related coronaviruses
  • Document date: 2020_3_4
  • ID: 4ihv80au_2
    Snippet: Considering that 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV are distantly related, but show high similarity in the RBD protein structure and can use the same cell receptor, ACE2 5-11 , an evolutionary convergence may have occurred between them. In the present study, we employ a recently developed molecular phyloecological approach 14-16 , which uses a comparative phylogenetic analysis of functional gene sequences to determine the genetic basis of phenotypic evolutio.....
    Document: Considering that 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV are distantly related, but show high similarity in the RBD protein structure and can use the same cell receptor, ACE2 5-11 , an evolutionary convergence may have occurred between them. In the present study, we employ a recently developed molecular phyloecological approach 14-16 , which uses a comparative phylogenetic analysis of functional gene sequences to determine the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution, and we examine the possible molecular basis underlying the phenotypic convergence between 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV. Our results reveal positive selection signals and evolutionary convergent amino acid sites of the spike protein in both 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV and their related coronaviruses, providing new insights into understanding the evolutionary origin of their phenotypic convergence.

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