Publications

structural analysis of covid-19 spike protein in recognizing the ace2 receptor of different mammalian species and its susceptibility to viral infection.	the pandemic covid-19 was caused by a novel coronavirus-2 (sars-cov-2) that infects humans through the binding of glycosylated sars-cov-2 spike 2 protein to the glycosylated ace2 receptor. the spike 2 protein recognizes the n-terminal helices of the glycosylated metalloprotease domain in the human ace2 receptor. to understand the susceptibility of animals for infection and transmission, we did sequence and structure-based molecular interaction analysis of 16 ace2 receptors from different mammali ...	2021	33552834
zinc finger antiviral protein (zap) inhibits small ruminant morbillivirus replication in vitro.	small ruminant morbillivirus (srmv) is a highly contagious and economically important viral disease of small domestic and wild ruminants. difficulty with its stable proliferation in ovis aries-derived cells has led to a relative lag in the study of its natural immunity and pathogenesis. here we report the antiviral properties of zap against srmv, a single-stranded negative-stranded rna virus of the genus morbillivirus. zap expression was significantly induced in sheep endometrial epithelial cell ...	2021	34311269
monitoring of bluetongue virus in zoo animals in spain, 2007-2019.	bluetongue (bt) is an emerging and re-emerging communicable vector-borne disease of animal health concern. a serosurvey was performed to assess exposure to bt virus (btv) in zoo animals in spain and to determine the dynamics of seropositivity in longitudinally sampled individuals during the study period. serum samples were collected from 241 zoo animals belonging to 71 different species in five urban zoos (a-e) in spain between 2007 and 2019. twenty-four of these animals were longitudinally surv ...	2021	33963677