Occurrence of a novel cleavage site for cathepsin G adjacent to the polybasic sequence within the proteolytically sensitive activation loop of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: The amino acid substitution N679K and P681H of the spike protein

• Zhadyra Mustafa,

  Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan Republic

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• Hubert Kalbacher,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Anatomy and Cell Analysis, Faculty of Medicine, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Timo Burster

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: timo.burster@nu.edu.kz

  Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9596-6558

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