Amino acid residues 655 and 969 in the spike protein of Omicron subvariant BA.1 control use of TMPRSS2 versus Cathepsin L dependent entry pathways and cell tropism

• Cheila Rocha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cheila Rocha, Prerna Arora

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Prerna Arora ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cheila Rocha, Prerna Arora

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Lu Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Anzhalika Sidarovich,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Luise Graichen,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Anna-Sophie Moldenhauer,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

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• Stefan Pöhlmann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: spoehlmann@dpz.eu (SP); mhoffmann@dpz.eu (MH)

  Affiliations Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6086-9136

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• Markus Hoffmann

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: spoehlmann@dpz.eu (SP); mhoffmann@dpz.eu (MH)

  Affiliation Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

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