D614G mutation is characterized by an aspartic acid to glycine shift at the amino acid position 614 of a protein. Studies have shown that a D614G mutation in the spike protein of severe acute ...

The D614G mutation of COVID-19 occupies an increasing proportion of detected variants since the end of February 2020, which has made it the most commonly identified variant in many parts of the ...

The D614G mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein--commonly referred to as the "G variant"--likely emerged in early 2020 and is now is the most prevalent and dominant form of the SARS-CoV-2 ...

In early 2020, soon after the pandemic began, researchers from the University of Toronto discovered a subsequent SARS-CoV-2 mutation, called D614G; however, its precise function was not known. Gould, ...

What's unclear is whether the D614G mutation slows or speeds the viral "car" or, in fact, does nothing. Download the NBC News app for full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak.

The D614G mutation does seem to have increased the infectivity of the coronavirus — at least in cells grown in laboratories, according to a recent paper by the computational biologist Bette ...

Neutralizing-antibody titers against virus with the D614G mutation and the omicron subvariants BA.1, BA.2.12.1, and BA.4/5 in serum samples obtained from participants with previous SARS-CoV-2 ...

As a result, the viruses with D614G were far more likely to infect a cell than viruses without that mutation, according to the scientists who led the study, Hyeryun Choe and Michael Farzan. The ...

Mutations D614G and P681R may increase the number of spike proteins cut by furin on each newly made virus, better prepping the viruses to enter other cells. D614G makes it easier for furin to make ...

The D614G mutation is believed to be responsible for the current status of the pandemic. This mutation doesn’t make the virus more dangerous, but it did become more infectious.