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ArticleChemRxiv : the preprint server for chemistry2020

Adaptive Evolution of Peptide Inhibitors for Mutating SARS-CoV-2.

Parth Chaturvedi, Yanxiao Han, Petr Král, Lela Vuković

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Article in ChemRxiv : the preprint server for chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Parth ChaturvediDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.
Yanxiao HanDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States.
Petr KrálDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States.
Lela VukovićDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.
The University of Texas at El Paso · USUniversity of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

Strengthening Stakeholder Engagement in Human Research Protections.UL1TR002003 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI KARNIK, NIRANJAN SUBHASH, MERMELSTEIN, ROBIN J. · 2016 to 2024
$33.7M
Computational modeling of broad-spectrum non-toxic antiviral nanoparticles with a virucidal inhibition mechanismR03AI142553 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO · PI VUKOVIC, LELA · 2019 to 2020
$151k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002003NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI142553
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is currently causing a worldwide pandemic with dramatic societal consequences for the humankind. In the last decades, disease outbreaks due to such zoonotic pathogens have appeared with an accelerated rate, which calls for an urgent development of<br>adaptive (smart) therapeutics. Here, we develop a computational strategy to adaptively evolve peptides that could selectively inhibit mutating S protein receptor binding domains (RBDs) of different SARS-CoV-2 viral strains from binding to their human host receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). Starting from suitable peptide templates, based on selected ACE2 segments (natural RBD binder), we gradually modify the templates by random mutations, while retaining those mutations that maximize their RBD-binding free energies. In this adaptive evolution, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of the template-RBD complexes are iteratively perturbed by the peptide mutations, which are retained under favorable Monte Carlo decisions. The computational search will provide libraries<br>of optimized therapeutics capable of reducing the SARS-CoV-2 infection on a global scale. <br>.

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adaptive evolutionmolecular dynamicsSARS-CoV-2 Spike proteintherapeutic peptides

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PMID32676578
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