Functional importance of the D614G mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

CB Jackson, L Zhang, M Farzan, H Choe - Biochemical and Biophysical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an enveloped virus
which binds its cellular receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and enters hosts …

[HTML][HTML] Protein structure-based in-silico approaches to drug discovery: Guide to COVID-19 therapeutics

Y Gupta, OV Savytskyi, M Coban, A Venugopal… - Molecular Aspects of …, 2023 - Elsevier
With more than 5 million fatalities and close to 300 million reported cases, COVID-19 is the
first documented pandemic due to a coronavirus that continues to be a major health …

[HTML][HTML] D614G spike mutation increases SARS CoV-2 susceptibility to neutralization

D Weissman, MG Alameh, T de Silva, P Collini… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein acquired
a D614G mutation early in the pandemic that confers greater infectivity and is now the …

The SARS-CoV-2 Spike variant D614G favors an open conformational state

RA Mansbach, S Chakraborty, K Nguyen… - Biophysical …, 2021 - cell.com
The COVID-19 global pandemic is an international health emergency. It is caused by the
SARS-CoV-2 virus, which binds with its trimeric Spike protein to the ACE2 receptor in the …

Modelling conformational state dynamics and its role on infection for SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein variants

N Teruel, O Mailhot… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein needs to be in an open-state conformation to interact with
ACE2 to initiate viral entry. We utilise coarse-grained normal mode analysis to model the …

SARS-CoV-2 spike opening dynamics and energetics reveal the individual roles of glycans and their collective impact

YT Pang, A Acharya, DL Lynch, A Pavlova… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The trimeric spike (S) glycoprotein, which protrudes from the SARS-CoV-2 viral envelope,
binds to human ACE2, initiated by at least one protomer's receptor binding domain (RBD) …

D614G mutation and SARS-CoV-2: impact on S-protein structure, function, infectivity, and immunity

M Bhattacharya, S Chatterjee, AR Sharma… - Applied microbiology …, 2021 - Springer
The progression of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated numerous emerging variants of
SARS-CoV-2 on a global scale. These variants have gained evolutionary advantages …

Dynamic network modeling of allosteric interactions and communication pathways in the SARS-CoV-2 spike trimer mutants: Differential modulation of conformational …

GM Verkhivker, L Di Paola - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
The rapidly growing body of structural and biochemical studies of the SARS-CoV-2 spike
glycoprotein has revealed a variety of distinct functional states with radically different …

Heparin: A simplistic repurposing to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission in light of its in-vitro nanomolar efficacy

Y Gupta, D Maciorowski, SE Zak, CV Kulkarni… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The world is currently facing a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. The greatest
threat that is disrupting the normal functioning of society is the exceptionally high species …

COVID‐19: emergence and mutational diversification of SARS‐CoV‐2

H Brüssow - Microbial Biotechnology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The origin of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus is not yet defined, but a viral zoonosis from bats–with or
without an alternative animal as an intermediate host–is still the most likely hypothesis. The …