SARS-CoV-2 Receptors and Their Involvement in Cell Infection.

The new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has many times surpassed the epidemics caused by SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. The reason for this was the presence of sites in the protein sequence of SARS-CoV-2 that provide interaction with a broader range of receptor proteins on the host cell surface. In this review, we consider both already known receptors common to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 and new receptors specific to SARS-CoV-2.
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(© Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. 2023, ISSN 1990-7478, Biochemistry (Moscow), Supplement Series A: Membrane and Cell Biology, 2023, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1–11. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2023.Russian Text © The Author(s), 2022, published in Biologicheskie Membrany, 2022, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 419–430.)