A paper by Kei Sato’s group (Division of Systems Immunology) was published in Journal of Virology.

Multiple mutations of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 variant orchestrate its virological characteristics.

Kimura I, Yamasoba D, Nasser H, Ito H, Zahradnik J, Wu J, Fujita S, Uriu K, Sasaki J, Tamura T, Suzuki R, Deguchi S, Plianchaisuk A, Yoshimatsu K, Kazuma Y, Mitoma S, Schreiber G, Asakura H, Nagashima M, Sadamasu K, Yoshimura K, Takaori-Kondo A; Genotype to Phenotype Japan (G2P-Japan) Consortium; Ito J, Shirakawa K, Takayama K, Irie T, Hashiguchi T, Nakagawa S, Fukuhara T, Saito A, Ikeda T, Sato K.