Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 spike

Yamasoba D#, Kimura I#, Nasser H#, Morioka Y#, Nao N#, Ito J#, Uriu K#, Tsuda M#, Zahradnik J# (#equal contribution), Shirakawa K, Suzuki R, Kishimoto M, Kosugi Y, Kobiyama K, Hara T, Toyoda M, Tanaka YL, Butlertanaka EP, Shimizu R, Ito H, Wang L, Oda Y, Orba Y, Sasaki M, Nagata K, Yoshimatsu K, Asakura H, Nagashima M, Sadamasu K, Yoshimura K, Kuramochi J, Seki M, Fujiki R, Kaneda A, Shimada T, Nakada T, Sakao S, Suzuki T, Ueno T, Takaori-Kondo A, Ishii KJ, Schreiber G, The Genotype to Phenotype Japan (G2P-Japan) Consortium, Sawa H, Saito A*, Irie T*, Tanaka T*, Matsuno K*, Fukuhara T*, Ikeda T*, Sato K* (*equal correspondence). Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 spike. Cell. 185, 2103-2115.e19, 2022.