COVID-19 Spike Glycoprotein-S1

Structural diagrams of spike glycoproteins of SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2. All spike proteins of coronaviruses contain S1 subunit and S2 subunit, which were divided by the S cleavage sites. FP, fusion peptide; HR, heptad repeat 1 and heptad repeat 2; RBD, receptor-binding domain, contains core binding motif in the external subdomain; SP, signal peptide. Adapted from Composition and divergence of coronavirus spike proteins and host ACE2 receptors predict potential intermediate hosts of SARS-CoV-2. Liu Z, et al. J Med Virol. 2020 Feb 26. doi: 10.1002/jmv.25726.