Mutation detail:
| Mutation site | T678A |
| Virus | SARS-CoV-2 |
Mutation level  |
Amino acid level |
| Gene/protein/region type | S |
| Gene ID | 43740568 |
| Country | USA, Germany, India, Peru, Italy, Netherlands |
| Mutation type |
nonsynonymous mutation |
| Genotype/subtype/clade | - |
| Sample |
Human |
| Variants | - |
| Viral reference sequence | MN908947.3 |
| Drug/antibody/vaccine | - |
| Transmissibility |
- |
| Transmission mechanism | - |
| Pathogenicity |
- |
| Pathogenicity mechanism | - |
| Immune escape mutation | - |
| Immune escape mechanism | - |
| RT-PCR primers probes | - |
Protein detail:
| Protein name | Spike glycoprotein |
| Uniprot protein ID | P0DTC2 |
| Protein length | 1273 amino acids |
| Protein description | Spike protein is one of the structural proteins of SARS-CoV-2. The monomeric protein consists of one large ectodomain, a single-pass transmembrane anchor, and a short intracellular tail at C-terminus. It encompasses 22 glycosylation sites. S protein cleaves into two subunits namely S1 and S2 following receptor recognition. Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) in S1 subunit plays a major role in ACE2 receptor binding. |
Literature information:
| Pubmed ID | 34570776 |
| Clinical information | No |
| Disease | - |
| Published year | 2021 |
| Journal | PLoS One |
| Title | Large-scale analysis of SARS-CoV-2 spike-glycoprotein mutants demonstrates the need for continuous screening of virus isolates |
| Author | Barbara Schrörs, Pablo Riesgo-Ferreiro, Patrick Sorn, Ranganath Gudimella, Thomas Bukur |
| Evidence | We analyzed 1,036,030 SARS-CoV-2 genome assemblies and 30,806 NGS datasets from GISAID and European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) focusing on non-synonymous mutations in the spike protein. Only around 2.5% of the samples contained the wild-type spike protein with no variation from the reference. Among the spike protein mutants, we confirmed a low mutation rate exhibiting less than 10 non-synonymous mutations in 99.6% of the analyzed sequences, but the mean and median number of spike protein mutations per sample increased over time. 5,472 distinct variants were found in total. |