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Fang Li is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several subfields including Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Animal Science and Zoology, and Immunology.

The main topics covered in Fang Li's work involve SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, animal virus infections studies, viral infections and outbreaks research, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and viral infections and immunology research.

Fang Li has contributed publications to several venues, notably:

  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Journal of Virology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Research Square
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their research collaborations include frequent coauthorship with Gang Ye, Lanying Du, Yushun Wan, Qibin Geng, and Stanley Perlman.

Recent papers published by Fang Li include:

  • "Receptor Recognition by the Novel Coronavirus from Wuhan: an Analysis Based on Decade-Long Structural Studies of SARS Coronavirus" (2020) published in Journal of Virology
  • "Structural basis of receptor recognition by SARS-CoV-2" (2020) published in Nature
  • "Cell entry mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A seven-gene-deleted African swine fever virus is safe and effective as a live attenuated vaccine in pigs" (2020) published in Science China Life Sciences
  • "Structure of mouse coronavirus spike protein complexed with receptor reveals mechanism for viral entry" (2020) published in PLoS Pathogens

Best Publications

  • Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses

    Jie Cui;Fang Li;Zheng Li Shi

  • Receptor Recognition by the Novel Coronavirus from Wuhan: an Analysis Based on Decade-Long Structural Studies of SARS Coronavirus.

    Yushun Wan;Jian Shang;Rachel Graham;Ralph S. Baric

  • Structural basis of receptor recognition by SARS-CoV-2.

    Jian Shang;Gang Ye;Ke Shi;Yushun Wan

  • Cell entry mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2.

    Jian Shang;Yushun Wan;Chuming Luo;Gang Ye

  • Structure, Function, and Evolution of Coronavirus Spike Proteins.

    Fang Li

  • Structure of SARS Coronavirus Spike Receptor-Binding Domain Complexed with Receptor

    Fang Li;Wenhui Li;Wenhui Li;Michael Farzan;Michael Farzan;Stephen C. Harrison;Stephen C. Harrison

  • Molecular mechanism for antibody-dependent enhancement of coronavirus entry

    Yushun Wan;Jian Shang;Shihui Sun;Wanbo Tai

  • Receptor recognition mechanisms of coronaviruses – a decade of structural studies

    Fang Li

  • Kinetics of viral load and antibody response in relation to COVID-19 severity.

    Yanqun Wang;Lu Zhang;Ling Sang;Feng Ye

  • SARS coronavirus, but not human coronavirus NL63, utilizes cathepsin L to infect ACE2-expressing cells.

    I-Chueh Huang;Berend Jan Bosch;Fang Li;Wenhui Li

  • Crystal structure of NL63 respiratory coronavirus receptor-binding domain complexed with its human receptor

    Kailang Wu;Weikai Li;Guiqing Peng;Fang Li

  • Animal origins of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus: insight from ACE2-S-protein interactions.

    Wenhui Li;Swee-Kee Wong;Fang Li;Jens H. Kuhn;Jens H. Kuhn

  • MERS-CoV spike protein: a key target for antivirals

    Lanying Du;Yang Yang;Yusen Zhou;Lu Lu

  • Receptor usage and cell entry of bat coronavirus HKU4 provide insight into bat-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus

    Yang Yang;Lanying Du;Chang Liu;Lili Wang

  • Receptor recognition and cross-species infections of SARS coronavirus.

    Fang Li

  • Mechanisms of host receptor adaptation by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

    Kailang Wu;Guiqing Peng;Matthew Wilken;Robert J. Geraghty

  • Receptor Usage and Cell Entry of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Coronavirus

    Chang Liu;Jian Tang;Yuanmei Ma;Xueya Liang

  • Crystal structure of mouse coronavirus receptor-binding domain complexed with its murine receptor

    Guiqing Peng;Dawei Sun;Kanagalaghatta R. Rajashankar;Zhaohui Qian

  • Structural Analysis of Major Species Barriers between Humans and Palm Civets for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infections

    Fang Li

  • Structural basis for multifunctional roles of mammalian aminopeptidase N.

    Lang Chen;Yi Lun Lin;Guiqing Peng;Fang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Shibo Jiang
Shibo Jiang Fudan University
Lanying Du
Lanying Du Georgia State University
Yusen Zhou
Yusen Zhou Zhengzhou University
Ralph S. Baric
Ralph S. Baric University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas A. Steitz
Thomas A. Steitz Yale University
Stephen C. Harrison
Stephen C. Harrison Harvard University
Chien Te K. Tseng
Chien Te K. Tseng The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Michael Farzan
Michael Farzan Harvard Medical School
Wenhui Li
Wenhui Li Tsinghua University
Zhengli Shi
Zhengli Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences

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