Nicotinic cholinergic system and COVID-19: In silico identification of interactions between α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and the cryptic epitopes of SARS-Co-V and SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoproteins

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    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Structure retrieval: The 3D structures of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein (S1) in complex with the human Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (hACE2) (PDB id: 6LZG), the hACE2 (1R41, 1R42) the cryo-EM determined complex of spike protein S-ACE2-B0AT1 neutral amino acid transporter (PDB id: 6M18), the structure of a neutralizing to SARS-CoV mAb that also cross-reacts with the S protein of SARS-CoV-2 when the latter is in complex with the ACE2 receptor (PDB id: 6NB7), the ECD of the nAChR α9 subunit in complex with α-bungarotoxin (PDB id: 4UY2), the structure of SARS-CoV-2 RBD in complex with the human monoclonal antibody CR3022 (PDB id:6W41) and the structure of the ligand binding domain (LBD) of a chimera pentameric α7 nAChR (PDB id: 3SQ9) were downloaded from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). 2.3.
    Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2
    suggested: None
    neutral amino acid transporter
    suggested: None
    α-bungarotoxin
    suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# B35451, RRID:AB_2617152)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    BLAST searches were performed using Mega BLAST [26] with the UNIPROT protein database [27] and by using BLASTP (protein–protein BLAST) with default parameters.
    BLAST
    suggested: (BLASTX, RRID:SCR_001653)
    Mega BLAST
    suggested: (Mega BLAST, RRID:SCR_011920)
    BLASTP
    suggested: (BLASTP, RRID:SCR_001010)
    Multiple sequence alignments were performed using ClustalOmega program (Clustal-O) [28]. 2.2.
    ClustalOmega
    suggested: None

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    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No funding statement was detected.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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