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Immune escape facilitation by mutations of epitope residues in RdRp of SARS-CoV-2.
Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics - 1 May 2023
Mallick Gupta Aayatti, Mandal SasthiCharan, Mandal Sukhendu, Chakrabarti Jaydeb
Abstract excerpt
Mutations drive viral evolution and genome variability that causes viruses to escape host immunity and to develop drug resistance. SARS-CoV-2 has considerably higher mutation rate. SARS-CoV-2 possesses a RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) which helps to replicate its genome. The mutation P323L in RdRp is associated with the loss of a particular epitope (321-327) from this protein. We consider the effects of...
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