This is a great write-up from the editorial team at Nature Microbiology about our hedgehog coronavirus receptor paper and the study from Huan Yan’s group at Wuhan University, who reached the same finding independently.
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Convergent receptor use at the coronavirus One Health interface - Nature Microbiology
Two independent studies identified host species-specific aminopeptidase N as the entry receptor for hedgehog merbecoviruses, revealing convergent receptor use with alphacoronaviruses, but through a di...