An 81-Nucleotide Deletion in SARS-CoV-2 ORF7a Identified from Sentinel Surveillance in Arizona (January to March 2020)

LaRinda A Holland; Emily A Kaelin; Rabia Maqsood; Bereket Estifanos; Lily I Wu; Arvind Varsani; Rolf U Halden; Brenda G Hogue; Matthew Scotch; Efrem S Lim

doi:10.1128/JVI.00711-20

An 81-Nucleotide Deletion in SARS-CoV-2 ORF7a Identified from Sentinel Surveillance in Arizona (January to March 2020)

J Virol. 2020 Jul 1;94(14):e00711-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00711-20. Print 2020 Jul 1.

Authors

LaRinda A Holland^#¹, Emily A Kaelin^#^{1

2}, Rabia Maqsood¹, Bereket Estifanos^{2

3}, Lily I Wu¹, Arvind Varsani^{1

2

4

5}, Rolf U Halden^{6

7}, Brenda G Hogue^{2

3

8}, Matthew Scotch^{6

9}, Efrem S Lim^{10

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
² School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
³ Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
⁴ Center of Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
⁵ Structural Biology Research Unit, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
⁷ One Water One Health Nonprofit Project, Arizona State University Foundation, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
⁸ Center for Applied Structural Discovery, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
⁹ College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
¹⁰ Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Efrem.Lim@asu.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; ORF7a; SARS-CoV-2.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Arizona / epidemiology
Betacoronavirus / genetics*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / virology*
Evolution, Molecular
Genome, Viral
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / virology*
SARS-CoV-2
Sentinel Surveillance
Sequence Deletion
Viral Proteins / genetics*

Substances

ORF7a protein, SARS-CoV-2
Viral Proteins

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding