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. 2020 Aug 1;89:104490. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104490

Table 4.

Percent identity matrix of major proteins and domains of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2 strain with other beta-CoVs obtained using CLUSTAL O (1.2.4).

PROTEIN SARS-CoV MERS-CoV HCoV HKU1 HCoV OC43
S (spike) 97.71% 32.79% 30.50% 31.26%
E (Envelope) 96.00% 36.00% 28.00% 20.00%
M (Membrane) 89.59% 39.27% 35.29% 38.74%
N (Nucleocapsid) 85.41% 48.47% 34.28% 35.20%
Receptor (ACE-2) binding domain 74.41% 18.75% 24.44% 22.83%
N-terminal domain 52.55% 21.67% 21.49% 20.26%