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ArticleEngineering in life sciences2021

Purification and characterization of the receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from

Yunxia He, Jinming Qi, Lucheng Xiao, Lijuan Shen, Weili Yu, Tao Hu

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Article in Engineering in life sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yunxia HeState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing P. R. China.
Jinming QiState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing P. R. China.
Lucheng XiaoState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing P. R. China.
Lijuan ShenState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing P. R. China.
Weili YuState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing P. R. China.
Tao HuState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing P. R. China.
Institute of Process Engineering · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for a disruptive worldwide viral pandemic, and renders a severe respiratory disease known as COVID-19. Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 mediates viral entry into host cells by binding ACE2 through the receptor-binding domain (RBD). RBD is an important target for development of virus inhibitors, neutralizing antibodies, and vaccines. RBD expressed in mammalian cells suffers from low expression yield and high cost.

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COVID‐19purificationRBDSARS‐CoV‐2spike protein

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PMID34140855
PMCPMC8182281
OpenAlexW3160631959

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