Coarse-Grained Modeling of Coronavirus Spike Proteins and ACE2 Receptors

We developed coarse-grained models of spike proteins in SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor proteins to study the endocytosis of a whole coronavirus under physiologically relevant spatial and temporal scales. We first conducted all-atom explicit-solvent molecul...

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Main Authors: Timothy Leong, Chandhana Voleti, Zhangli Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.680983/full