Transformations, Lineage Comparisons, and Analysis of Down-to-Up Protomer States of Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 Prefusion Spike Protein, Including the UK Variant B.1.1.7-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Transformations, Lineage Comparisons, and Analysis of Down-to-Up Protomer States of Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 Prefusion Spike Protein, Including the UK Variant B.1.1.7

Published:2021-09-03 Issue:1 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Peters Michael H.¹^ORCID,Bastidas Oscar²,Kokron Daniel S.³,Henze Christopher E.³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

2. College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

3. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA

Abstract

Viral variants represent a major challenge to monitoring viral outbreaks and formulating strategic health care responses. Variants represent transmitting viruses that have specific mutations and deletions associated with their genome.

Funder

COVID19 HPC Consortium

NIH Academic Career Development Award

Virginia Commonwealth University

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/Spectrum.00030-21

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