Fig. 2. Conservation of SARS-CoV-2 S protein.
A Multiple sequence alignment was generated by the ConSurf algorithm (https://consurf.tau.ac.il) using the chain A of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in the closed state (PDB ID 6VXX) as a reference. Amino acid conservation scores were classified into nine levels. Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein (chain A) with amino acid residues colored according to conservation on a scale from green (1, most variable) to dark purple (9, most conserved) is also shown.