Interplay between receptor binding, immune escape and protein stability determines the natural selection of SARS-CoV-2 variants
V. Upadhyay, A. Lucas, S. Panja, R. Miyauchi, K. Mallela
The paper evaluates how mutations in SARS-CoV-2's receptor binding domain affect protein stability, ACE2 binding, and antibody escape, showing multiple factors influence variant selection.
bioRxiv · May 23, 2021Biophysics