Abstract: This strategy allowed us to identify the emergence of the B.1.621 lineage, considered a variant of interest (VOI) with the accumulation of several substitutions affecting the
Spike protein, including the amino acid changes
I95I,
Y144T,
Y145S and the insertion 146
N in the
N-terminal domain,
R346K,
E484K and
N501Y in the
Receptor binding Domain (
RBD) and
P681H in the S1/S2 cleavage site of the
Spike protein.
Introduction: In this study, we reported the emergence and spread of the novel B.1.621 lineage of SARS-CoV-2, a new VOI with