The papain-like protease determines a virulence trait that varies among members of the SARS-coronavirus species

• Daniela Niemeyer,

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

  Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research, associated partner Charité, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1897-6365

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• Kirstin Mösbauer,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

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• Eva M. Klein,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5622-8202

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• Andrea Sieberg,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

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• Robert C. Mettelman,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, IL, United States of America

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• Anna M. Mielech,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, IL, United States of America

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• Ronald Dijkman,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Institute of Virology and Immunology, Bern & Mittelhäusern, Switzerland, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0320-2743

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• Susan C. Baker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, IL, United States of America

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• Christian Drosten ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Drosten, Marcel A. Müller

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

  * E-mail: christian.drosten@charite.de (CD); marcel.mueller@charite.de (MAM)

  Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research, associated partner Charité, Berlin, Germany

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• Marcel A. Müller

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Drosten, Marcel A. Müller

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christian.drosten@charite.de (CD); marcel.mueller@charite.de (MAM)

  Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research, associated partner Charité, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2242-5117

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