D614G
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- (biochemistry) A protein mutation, at amino acid location 614, where the original D614 becomes G614 by replacing aspartic acid (“Asp”) (D) with glycine (“Gly”) (G)
- (virology, COVID-19, informal, by extension) A variant of SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Coronavirus carrying this mutation.
- (informal) The variant of SARS-CoV-2 that became dominant worldwide outside of China at the start of 2020
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