The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

PV Markov, M Ghafari, M Beer, K Lythgoe… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused millions of
deaths and substantial morbidity worldwide. Intense scientific effort to understand the …

The evolution and biology of SARS-CoV-2 variants

A Telenti, EB Hodcroft… - Cold Spring …, 2022 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Our understanding of the still unfolding severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) pandemic would have been extremely limited without the study of the …

Efficient evolution of human antibodies from general protein language models

BL Hie, VR Shanker, D Xu, TUJ Bruun… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural evolution must explore a vast landscape of possible sequences for desirable yet
rare mutations, suggesting that learning from natural evolutionary strategies could guide …

Deep-learning-enabled protein–protein interaction analysis for prediction of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity and variant evolution

G Wang, X Liu, K Wang, Y Gao, G Li… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Host–pathogen interactions and pathogen evolution are underpinned by protein–protein
interactions between viral and host proteins. An understanding of how viral variants affect …

Deep mutational scans for ACE2 binding, RBD expression, and antibody escape in the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1 and BA. 2 receptor-binding domains

TN Starr, AJ Greaney, CM Stewart, AC Walls… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
SARS-CoV-2 continues to acquire mutations in the spike receptor-binding domain (RBD)
that impact ACE2 receptor binding, folding stability, and antibody recognition. Deep …

A pseudovirus system enables deep mutational scanning of the full SARS-CoV-2 spike

B Dadonaite, KHD Crawford, CE Radford, AG Farrell… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A major challenge in understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution is interpreting the antigenic and
functional effects of emerging mutations in the viral spike protein. Here, we describe a deep …

COVID-19: challenges of viral variants

JL Jacobs, G Haidar, JW Mellors - Annual Review of Medicine, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by SARS-CoV-2 evolution and
emergence of viral variants that have far exceeded initial expectations. Five major variants of …

An early warning system for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

L Subissi, A von Gottberg, L Thukral, N Worp… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
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Fitness effects of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 proteins

JD Bloom, RA Neher - Virus Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Knowledge of the fitness effects of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 can inform
assessment of new variants, design of therapeutics resistant to escape, and understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary velocity with protein language models predicts evolutionary dynamics of diverse proteins

BL Hie, KK Yang, PS Kim - Cell Systems, 2022 - cell.com
The degree to which evolution is predictable is a fundamental question in biology. Previous
attempts to predict the evolution of protein sequences have been limited to specific proteins …