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Predicting Mutational Effects on Receptor Binding of the Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 Variants.
Journal of the American Chemical Society - 27 Oct 2021
Bai Chen, Wang Junlin, Chen Geng, Zhang Honghui, An Ke, Xu Peiyi, Du Yang, Ye Richard D, Saha Arjun, Zhang Aoxuan, Warshel Arieh
Abstract excerpt
The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has cost millions of lives and tremendous social/financial loss. The virus continues to evolve and mutate. In particular, the recently emerged "UK", "South Africa", and Delta variants show higher infectivity and spreading speed. Thus, the relationship between the mutations of certain amino acids and the spreading speed of the virus is a problem of great importance. In this...
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