Biophysics

Mutations of Omicron Variant at the Interface of the Receptor Domain Motif and Human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme-2

1. Puja Adhikari
2. Bahaa Jawad
3. Rudolf Podgornik
4. Wai-Yim Ching

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Mechanistic Origin of Different Binding Affinities of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 Spike RBDs to Human ACE2

1. Zhi-Bi Zhang
2. Yuan-Ling Xia
3. Jian-Xin Shen
4. Wen-Wen Du
5. Yun-Xin Fu
6. Shu-Qun Liu

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Sampling alternative conformational states of transporters and receptors with AlphaFold2

1. Diego del Alamo
2. Davide Sala
3. Hassane S Mchaourab
4. Jens Meiler

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  Evaluation Summary:

  In this work, del Alamo and colleagues illustrate the ability of recent Deep Learning techniques to predict diverse conformational states in proteins, as opposed to single static models reflecting individual states. Although they are limited to a small number of test cases of membrane proteins, the examples are of interest to members of the community, who are currently unable to reliably model the essential conformational changes required for function, at least until Deep Learning methods can be improved along these lines.

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Unraveling the Enzymatic Mechanism of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-Dependent-RNA-Polymerase. An Unusual Active Site Leading to High Replication Rates

1. Emmanuelle Bignon
2. Antonio Monari

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Toward Atomistic Models of Intact SARS-CoV-2 via Martini Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations

1. Dali Wang
2. Jiaxuan Li
3. Lei Wang
4. Yipeng Cao
5. Sai Li
6. Chen Song

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A genetically encoded BRET-based SARS-CoV-2 Mpro protease activity sensor

1. Anupriya M. Geethakumari
2. Wesam S. Ahmed
3. Saad Rasool
4. Asma Fatima
5. S. M. Nasir Uddin
6. Mustapha Aouida
7. Kabir H. Biswas

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Using Unassigned NMR Chemical Shifts to Model RNA Secondary Structure

1. Neel Moudgal
2. Grace Arhin
3. Aaron T. Frank

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Differences between Omicron SARS-CoV-2 RBD and other variants in their ability to interact with cell receptors and monoclonal antibodies

1. Carolina Corrêa Giron
2. Aatto Laaksonen
3. Fernando Luís Barroso da Silva

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Mars, a molecule archive suite for reproducible analysis and reporting of single-molecule properties from bioimages

1. Nadia M Huisjes
2. Thomas M Retzer
3. Matthias J Scherr
4. Rohit Agarwal
5. Lional Rajappa
6. Barbara Safaric
7. Anita Minnen
8. Karl E Duderstadt

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This manuscript reports an open-source platform for the storage and processing of single-molecule, camera-based, imaging data. This platform would facilitate data sharing and reproducibility and would be of great interest to practitioners of single-molecule imaging experiments, both experienced and new to the field. Although the platform requires a bit more testing, troubleshooting, and documenting, it represents significant and important steps towards unifying and standardizing how the field stores and processes data and towards expanding the base of researchers who can easily employ single-molecule imaging methods.

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Binding of human ACE2 and RBD of Omicron enhanced by unique interaction patterns among SARS‐CoV ‐2 variants of concern

1. Seonghan Kim
2. Yi Liu
3. Matthew Ziarnik
4. Sangjae Seo
5. Yiwei Cao
6. X. Frank Zhang
7. Wonpil Im

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