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The supramolecular organization of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 virions revealed by coarse-grained models of intact virus envelopes
Beibei Wang; Changqing Zhong; D. Peter Tieleman.
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  • Beibei Wang; Beijing Normal University
  • Changqing Zhong; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • D. Peter Tieleman; University of Calgary
Preprint en En | PREPRINT-BIORXIV | ID: ppbiorxiv-460716
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ABSTRACT
The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic is causing a global health crisis and has already caused a devastating societal and economic burden. The pathogen, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has a high sequence and architecture identity with SARS-CoV, but far more people have been infected by SARS-CoV-2. Here, combining structural data from cryo-EM and structure prediction, we constructed bottom-up Martini coarse-grained models of intact SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 envelopes. Microsecond molecular dynamics simulations were performed, allowing us to explore their dynamics and supramolecular organization. Both SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 envelopes present a spherical morphology with structural proteins forming multiple string-like islands in the membrane and clusters between heads of spike proteins. Critical differences between the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 envelopes are the interaction pattern between spike proteins and the flexibility of spike proteins. Our models provide structural and dynamic insights in the SARS virus envelopes, and could be used for further investigation, such as drug design, and fusion and fission processes.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 09-preprints Base de datos: PREPRINT-BIORXIV Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Idioma: En Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Preprint
Texto completo: 1 Colección: 09-preprints Base de datos: PREPRINT-BIORXIV Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Idioma: En Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Preprint