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Tracking the opening of spike crowns on the surface of coronaviruses

2025-11-03

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Circulating over years after the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 still poses a threat to the human society. The onset of viral infection requires the opening of a trimeric protein, called spike, located on the viral surface essential for binding the host-cell receptors and the subsequent fusion into the host cells. Upon spike-crown opening, one to three Receptor Binding Domains (RBD) rise from the compactly assembled spike h...

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DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.02.686173

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