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Deep mutagenesis in the study of COVID-19: a technical overview for the proteomics community.
Expert review of proteomics - 1 Sept 2020
Procko Erik
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INTRODUCTION: The spike (S) of SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) engages angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) on a host cell to trigger viral-cell membrane fusion and infection. The extracellular region of ACE2 can be administered as a soluble decoy to compete for binding sites on the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of S, but it has only moderate affinity and efficacy. The RBD, which is targeted by neutralizing...
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