Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120
and Gag
Prashant Pradhan$1,2, Ashutosh Kumar Pandey$1, Akhilesh Mishra$1, Parul Gupta1
, Praveen
Kumar Tripathi1
, Manoj Balakrishnan Menon1
, James Gomes1
, Perumal Vivekanandan*1
and
Bishwajit Kundu*1
1Kusuma School of biological sciences, Indian institute of technology, New Delhi-110016, India.
2Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, New Delhi-110019, India
$Equal contribution
* Corresponding authors- email: bkundu@bioschool.iitd.ac.in
vperumal@bioschool.iitd.ac.in