MicrobiologybioRxiv
Virion morphology and on-virus spike protein structures of diverse SARS-CoV-2 variants
Z. Ke, T. P. Peacock, J. C. Brown…·J. A. Briggs
The paper analyzes SARS-CoV-2 variant virion morphology and spike protein structures using cryo-EM, finding no adaptive changes in virion shape but multiple amino acid changes affecting spike conformational dynamics.