Funding. This work was supported by the NIH grants R01AI137472 and R01AI139092. 1 https://www.who.int/emergencies/mers-cov/en/ 2 https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200219-sitrep-30-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=6e50645_2 3 https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200204-sitrep-15-ncov.pdf?sfvrsn=88fe8ad6_2 4 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03615911 5 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03399578 Supplementary Material The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00298/full#supplementary-material FIGURE S1 Structures of SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV S proteins, RBDs, and their complexes with respective receptor. Trimeric S proteins of SARS-CoV (PDB: 5×5b) (A) and MERS-CoV (PDB: 5×5f) (C) are colored differently for each monomer. Two conformations of the RBD in each trimeric S protein are labeled as standing and lying states. The RBDs of each S protein are shown as light blue on the right panel. ACE2 and DPP4 receptors are respectively modeled to the trimeric S proteins by match-alignment of SARS-CoV RBD-ACE2 complex (PDB: 2AJF) to SARS-CoV S trimer (B) or MERS-CoV RBD-DPP4 complex (PDB: 4kr0) to MERS-CoV S trimer (D). Each of the RBD-receptor complexes is shown on the right panel. ACE2, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2; DPP4, dipeptidyl peptidase 4; RBD, receptor-binding domain; S, spike. Click here for additional data file.