Rapid, reliable, and reproducible cell fusion assay to quantify SARS-Cov-2 spike interaction with hACE2

• Min Zhao,

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Pei-Yi Su,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Danielle A. Castro,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Therese N. Tripler,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9336-7271

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• Yingxia Hu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Matthew Cook,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Albert I. Ko,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9023-2339

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• Shelli F. Farhadian,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Benjamin Israelow,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1308-8246

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• Charles S. Dela Cruz,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Yong Xiong,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Richard E. Sutton ,

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

  * E-mail: richard.sutton@yale.edu

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• the Yale IMPACT Research Team

  ¶Membership list of Yale IMPACT Research Team is provided in the acknowledgments

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