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A bias of Asparagine to Lysine mutations in SARS-CoV-2 outside the receptor binding domain affects protein flexibility.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2022
Boer Jennifer C, Pan Qisheng, Holien Jessica K, Nguyen Thanh-Binh, Ascher David B, Plebanski Magdalena
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Introduction: COVID-19 pandemic has been threatening public health and economic development worldwide for over two years. Compared with the original SARS-CoV-2 strain reported in 2019, the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529.1) is more transmissible. This variant has 34 mutations in its Spike protein, 15 of which are present in the Receptor Binding Domain (RBD), facilitating viral internalization via binding to the...
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