Efficient antibody evasion but reduced ACE2 binding by the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.640.2

Cell Mol Immunol. 2022 Sep;19(9):1067-1069. doi: 10.1038/s41423-022-00870-5. Epub 2022 May 17.

Prerna Arora^{1

2}, Amy Kempf^{1

2}, Inga Nehlmeier¹, Luise Graichen^{1

2}, Sebastian Schulz³, Anne Cossmann⁴, Alexandra Dopfer-Jablonka^{4

5

6}, Martin S Winkler⁷, Hans-Martin Jäck³, Georg M N Behrens^{4

5

6}, Stefan Pöhlmann^{8

9}, Markus Hoffmann^{10

11}

¹ Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
² Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073, Göttingen, Germany.
³ Division of Molecular Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Glückstraße 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany.
⁴ Department for Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
⁵ German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Hannover, Germany.
⁶ Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM), Hannover, Germany.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology, University of Göttingen Medical Center, Göttingen, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Germany.
⁸ Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Göttingen, Germany. spoehlmann@dpz.eu.
⁹ Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073, Göttingen, Germany. spoehlmann@dpz.eu.
¹⁰ Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Göttingen, Germany. mhoffmann@dpz.eu.
¹¹ Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073, Göttingen, Germany. mhoffmann@dpz.eu.

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