Some mechanistic underpinnings of molecular adaptations of SARS-COV-2 spike protein by integrating candidate adaptive polymorphisms with protein dynamics
N. J. Ose, P. J. Campitelli, T. Modi, I. C. Kazan, S. Kumar, S. B. Ozkan
The paper integrates evolutionary predictions with protein dynamics to analyze molecular adaptations of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein, revealing allosteric interactions and mutation effects on ACE2 binding and antibody escape.
bioRxiv · Sep 14, 2023Biophysics