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Unmasking the Conformational Stability and Inhibitor Binding to SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Active Site Mutants and Miniprecursor.
Journal of molecular biology - 30 Dec 2022
Kovalevsky Andrey, Coates Leighton, Kneller Daniel W, Ghirlando Rodolfo, Aniana Annie, Nashed Nashaat T, Louis John M
Abstract excerpt
We recently demonstrated that inhibitor binding reorganizes the oxyanion loop of a monomeric catalytic domain of SARS CoV-2 main protease (MPro) from an unwound (E) to a wound (active, E*) conformation, independent of dimerization. Here we assess the effect of the flanking N-terminal residues, to imitate the MPro precursor prior to its autoprocessing, on conformational equilibria rendering stability and inhibitor...
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