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ArticleBiophysical journal2021

Identifying crucial E-protein residues responsible for unusual stability of Zika virus envelope.

Chinmai Pindi, Venkat R Chirasani, Sanjib Senapati

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Chinmai PindiDepartment of Biotechnology and BJM School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
Venkat R ChirasaniDepartment of Biotechnology and BJM School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
Sanjib SenapatiDepartment of Biotechnology and BJM School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. Electronic address: sanjibs@iitm.ac.in.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infections in 2015-16 that caused microcephaly and other congenital abnormalities in newborns prompted intense research across the globe. These studies have suggested that ZIKV can survive high temperatures and harsh physiological conditions, unlike the other flaviviruses such as dengue virus (DENV). In contrast, recent cryo-electron microscopy studies have shown very similar architecture of the ZIKV and DENV envelopes that constitute the primary level of viral protection. Encouraged by these findings, here we attempt to identify the crucial protein residues that make the ZIKV envelope so robust by employing coarse-grained and all-atomic molecular dynamics simulations and computational mutagenesis studies. In accordance with more recent cryo-electron microscopy findings, our simulation results exhibited stable ZIKV envelope protein shell both at 29

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Dengue VirusZika VirusZika Virus InfectionAntibodies, ViralCryoelectron MicroscopyHumansInfant, NewbornViral EnvelopeAntibodies, Viral

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