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. 2021 May 26;16(5):e0251426. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251426

Fig 2. Potential elastase sites in the spike protein of the new SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Fig 2

Potential new elastase sites in (a) the more infective UK variant, 501Y.V1 and (b) the more infective South Africa variant, 501Y.V2. Images generated using BioRender. Blue boxes indicate fixed mutations and gray boxes–non-fixed in all the sequenced 501Y.V2 [14]. Red arrows indicate the predicted cleavage site of neutrophil elastase.