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ArticleVirology2022

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

Marko Popovic

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Article in Virology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Marko PopovicSchool of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. Electronic address: marko.popovic@tum.de.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 virus is the cause of COVID-19 pandemic and belongs to RNA viruses, showing great tendency to mutate. Several dozens of mutations have been observed on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, during the last two years. Some of the mutated strains show a greater infectivity and are capable of suppressing the earlier strains, through interference. In this work, kinetic and thermodynamic properties were calculated for strains characterized by various numbers and locations of mutations. It was shown that mutations lead to changes in chemical composition, thermodynamic properties and infectivity. Through competition, the phenomenon of interference of various SARS-CoV-2 strains was explained, which results in suppression of the wild type by mutant strains. Standard Gibbs energy of binding and binding constant for the Omicron (B.1.1.529) strain were found to be Δ

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2EntropyHumansPandemicsThermodynamicsAlpha strainBeta strainDelta strainGamma strainHu-1 strainOmicron strain

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PMID35366482
PMCPMC8961312

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