Novel ACE2 binding in bat merbecoviruses expands potential host range

• Xiaoguang Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoguang Zhang, Xing Ma, Ye Chen, Yabo You

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunity of Jiangsu Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Xing Ma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoguang Zhang, Xing Ma, Ye Chen, Yabo You

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunity of Jiangsu Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Ye Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoguang Zhang, Xing Ma, Ye Chen, Yabo You

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Fujian-Taiwan Animal Pathogen Biology, College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

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• Yabo You ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoguang Zhang, Xing Ma, Ye Chen, Yabo You

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunity of Jiangsu Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Xin-Xin Li,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunity of Jiangsu Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Jie Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunity of Jiangsu Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Shuhan Kong,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Dawei Guo,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunity of Jiangsu Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Xiaoling Li,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunity of Jiangsu Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Michael Veit ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Michael.Veit@fu-berlin.de (MV); t2023188@njau.edu.cn (XZ); tianjin@caas.cn (JT)

  Affiliation Institute for Virology, Center for Infection Medicine, Veterinary Faculty, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Xiaofeng Zhai ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Michael.Veit@fu-berlin.de (MV); t2023188@njau.edu.cn (XZ); tianjin@caas.cn (JT)

  Affiliation Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunity of Jiangsu Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2308-5794

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• Jin Tian

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Michael.Veit@fu-berlin.de (MV); t2023188@njau.edu.cn (XZ); tianjin@caas.cn (JT)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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