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Sequence Characterization and Molecular Modeling of Clinically Relevant Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease.
Biochemistry - 6 Oct 2020
Cross Thomas J, Takahashi Gemma R, Diessner Elizabeth M, Crosby Marquise G, Farahmand Vesta, Zhuang Shannon, Butts Carter T, Martin Rachel W
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The SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) is essential to viral replication and cleaves highly specific substrate sequences, making it an obvious target for inhibitor design. However, as for any virus, SARS-CoV-2 is subject to constant neutral drift and selection pressure, with new Mpro mutations arising over time. Identification and structural characterization of Mpro variants is thus critical for robust inhibitor...
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