Result: We thus focussed on variants located in
spike protein of viral isolates from Iran and identified
spike variants in 28 samples (53%), in which
D614G and
T22I were occurring at higher frequencies of 24.5% and 17%, respectively (Table 2).
Discussion: Monitoring the
spike mutations in Iranian SARS-CoV-2 genomes revealed no novel mutations in this genomic region, while determined two commonly known mutations,
T22I and
D6
Discussion: While the
T22I mutation is less frequent in other regions, the
D614G variant is now the most prevalent mutation in
COVID-19 pandemic (Ahmadpour et al., 2020; Korber et al., 2020; Mercatelli and Giorgi, 2020).