Nanomechanical Analysis of Coronavirus Spike proteins and Correlation with Infectivity and Lethality

The novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has spread rapidly around the world. Its causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, enters human cells through the physical interaction between the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of its spike protein and the human cell receptor ACE2. As an increasing number of variants of S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hu, Yiwen
Other Authors: Buehler, Markus J.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139428