SARS-CoV-2 Mutations and COVID-19 Clinical Outcome: Mutation Global Frequency Dynamics and Structural Modulation Hold the Key.
PMID: 35386683
2022
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
Abstract: Importantly, we observed the mutation S194* within the recovered to be comparatively unstable, hence showing a low global frequency, as we observed.
Abstract: To understand the possible mechanism, we performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of nucleocapsid mutations, S194L and S194*, from the mortality and recovered patients, respectively, to examine its impacts on protein structure and stability.
Method: The mutation for recovered (S194*) and mortality (S194L) was incorporated using PyMOL.
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Result: Fluctuation was seen more in N protein with S194* as compared to the S194L mutant N protein ( Figure 5B ).