Strain Wars: Competitive interactions between SARS-CoV-2 strains are explained by Gibbs energy of antigen-receptor binding

M Popovic, M Popovic - Microbial risk analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
… , or one strain over other strain of the same virus is the result of interference with other (less
advantageous) strains of SARS CoV-2 virus and replacement of older with a new strain. Viral …

[HTML][HTML] Strain wars 2: Binding constants, enthalpies, entropies, Gibbs energies and rates of binding of SARS-CoV-2 variants

M Popovic - Virology, 2022 - Elsevier
… in Gibbs energy of binding of various mutated strains of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the wild
… influence of kinetics on infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 strains, through binding phenomenological …

Strain wars 3: Differences in infectivity and pathogenicity between Delta and Omicron strains of SARS-CoV-2 can be explained by thermodynamic and kinetic …

M Popovic - Microbial risk analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
… Delta and Omicron strains of SARS-CoV-2. The empirical formula of the Delta strain entire
virion … The empirical formula of the Omicron strain entire virion was found to be CH 1.6404 O …

[HTML][HTML] Strain Wars 4-Darwinian evolution through Gibbs' glasses: Gibbs energies of binding and growth explain evolution of SARS-CoV-2 from Hu-1 to BA. 2

M Popovic - Virology, 2022 - Elsevier
… BA.2 strain of SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, Gibbs energy of binding was determined for the BA.2
strain. The properties of BA.2 were compared to those of Hu-1, Delta and Omicron strains. It …

SARS-CoV-2 strain wars continues: Chemical and thermodynamic characterization of live matter and biosynthesis of Omicron BN. 1, CH. 1.1 and XBC variants

M Popovic - Microbial Risk Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 has during the last 3 years mutated several dozen times. Most mutations in the
newly formed variants have been chemically and thermodynamically characterized. New …

Strain Wars 5: Gibbs energies of binding of BA. 1 through BA. 4 variants of SARS-CoV-2

M Popovic - Microbial risk analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reports, for the first time, standard Gibbs energies of binding of the BA.1, BA.2, BA.3,
BA.2.13, BA.2.12.1 and BA.4 Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, to the Human ACE2 …

Competition of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the pandemic transmission dynamics

J Chen, C Gu, Z Ruan, M Tang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
… of COVID-19 kicked off completely, and the war between humans and COVID-19 variants
started … Just when we thought that the Delta strain had reached the peak of SARS-CoV-2 virus …

SARS-CoV-2 viral variants—tackling a moving target

JR Mascola, BS Graham, AS Fauci - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
… viral loads than the wild-type strain of SARS-CoV. Also of concern are retrospective … it has
rapidly become the predominant strain. Cases attributed to this strain have been detected in …

Will the Emergence of the More Highly Infective Mutant Strains of SARSCov‐2 Impose a Greater Strain on Health Care Professionals in 2021?

R Odeyale, O Tulp, G Einstein, C Chance - The FASEB Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… The recent emergence of SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01 and more recent variants, potentially
50% or more contagious strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus with as yet unknown risks for …

Biochemical and mathematical lessons from the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: paths for novel antiviral warfare

N Cluzel, A Lambert, Y Maday, G Turinici, A Danchin - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
… Interestingly, this branch is also the one that comprises on average the strains with the least
divergence from the original strain of the virus. By contrast, in branch B1, the loss of C looks …