Comprehensive mapping of binding hot spots of SARS-CoV-2 RBD-specific neutralizing antibodies for tracking immune escape variants

C Yi, X Sun, Y Lin, C Gu, L Ding, X Lu, Z Yang… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
… view of the antigenic sites on the SARS-CoV-2 RBD and the determinants of RBD NAb
recognition, we performed global RBD alanine scanning mutagenesis (at nearly 190 RBD amino …

Computational biophysical characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binding with the ACE2 receptor and implications for infectivity

R Chowdhury, VS Boorla, CD Maranas - Computational and structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
scanning results of the spike protein RBD of SARS-CoV-1 … In summary, alanine scans
indicate that SARS-CoV-2 has … with the exhaustive mutagenesis study on SARS-CoV-2 RBD …

Natural and Recombinant SARS-CoV-2 Isolates Rapidly Evolve In Vitro to Higher Infectivity through More Efficient Binding to Heparan Sulfate and Reduced S1/S2 …

N Shiliaev, T Lukash, O Palchevska… - Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… IMPORTANCE The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 is a major … The results of our study
demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 rapidly … Thus, the evolved SARS-CoV-2 variants efficiently use …

Identification of SARS-CoV-2 spike mutations that attenuate monoclonal and serum antibody neutralization

Z Liu, LA VanBlargan, LM Bloyet, PW Rothlauf… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
… Control of the ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
pandemic will require deployment of multiple countermeasures, including therapeutics and …

Mapping mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 RBD that escape binding by different classes of antibodies

AJ Greaney, TN Starr, CO Barnes, Y Weisblum… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… a deep mutational scanning approach to … the SARS-CoV-2 isolate Wuhan-Hu-1 (Genbank
accession number MN908947, residues N331-T531) via NNS codon tiling PCR mutagenesis, …

Naturally occurring spike mutations influence the infectivity and immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2

Q Peng, R Zhou, N Liu, H Wang, H Xu… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
… The cellular entry of SARS-CoV-2 is primarily mediated by binding of the receptor binding
… Briefly, all these plasmids were generated by a QuikChange II XL site-directed mutagenesis

Computational analysis of mutations in the receptor-binding domain of sars-cov-2 spike and their effects on antibody binding

ME Bozdaganyan, KV Shaitan, MP Kirpichnikov… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
mutagenesis analysis reported here will guide further experimental studies of Ab resistance
and identification of natural SARS-CoV… the complete virtual mutation scanning of RBD (…

Computational Hot‐Spot Analysis of the SARSCoV‐2 Receptor Binding Domain/ACE2 Complex

PA Rosario, BR McNaughton - Chembiochem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… A comparative analysis between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 is offered below. … alanine
scanning mutagenesis We next used BAlaS, 9 a computational alanine scanning mutagenesis

Enhanced fusogenicity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Delta P681R mutation

A Saito, T Irie, R Suzuki, T Maemura, H Nasser, K Uriu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
… were scanned for 4 min at 90 kV, 88 μA, FOV 45 mm and a pixel size 90.0 μm. After scanning,
the … -2 S D614G/P681R mutant was generated by site-directed mutagenesis PCR using pC-…

Atomistic simulations and in silico mutational profiling of protein stability and binding in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein complexes with nanobodies: Molecular …

GM Verkhivker, S Agajanian, DY Oztas, G Gupta - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
SARS-CoV-2 S binding with a panel of nanobodies that agrees with a wide spectrum of
mutagenesis … We conducted mutational scanning analysis of the binding epitope residues for the …