An ultrapotent pan-β-coronavirus lineage B (β-CoV-B) neutralizing antibody locks the receptor-binding domain in closed conformation by targeting its conserved …

Z Liu, W Xu, Z Chen, W Fu, W Zhan, Y Gao… - Protein & …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… -CoV-2 infection in vivo. Our findings suggest the potential to develop XG014 as pan-β-CoV-…
protective vaccines against β-CoV-B and newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. …

Conformational transition of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein between its closed and open states

M Gur, E Taka, SZ Yilmaz, C Kilinc, U Aktas… - The Journal of chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
… the closed (PDB ID: 6VXX) and open (PDB ID: 6VYB) states of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein
to investigate the conformational transition pathway and estimate conformational dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-guided covalent stabilization of coronavirus spike glycoprotein trimers in the closed conformation

M McCallum, AC Walls, JE Bowen, D Corti… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
… is applicable to other β-coronaviruses, such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, and might …
RBM is concealed in the closed conformation, we hypothesized that SARS-CoV-2 2P DS S …

[HTML][HTML] Conformational dynamics of the Beta and Kappa SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins and their complexes with ACE2 receptor revealed by cryo-EM

Y Wang, C Xu, Y Wang, Q Hong, C Zhang, Z Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… A number of SARS-CoV-2 … -CoV-2 Kappa and Beta variants in the open or transition state
for each variant at the resolution of 3.2–3.6 Å, revealing not only their unique conformational

[HTML][HTML] Modelling conformational state dynamics and its role on infection for SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein variants

N Teruel, O Mailhot… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… differences [39] and established as β = 1. The differences between the ΔS vib values for …
mutant G614 we observe that for the closed conformation, the pattern tends towards negative …

[HTML][HTML] Stabilizing the closed SARS-CoV-2 spike trimer

J Juraszek, L Rutten, S Blokland, P Bouchier… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… Further processing of the 320,000 closed conformation particles allowed us to obtain a …
closed conformation and a 3.0 Å electron potential map for the 1 RBD-up (one up) conformation (…

[HTML][HTML] In silico study of polyunsaturated fatty acids as potential SARS-CoV-2 spike protein closed conformation stabilizers: epidemiological and computational …

A Vivar-Sierra, MJ Araiza-Macías… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
… the closed conformation of spike protein and potentially lead to a reduction in SARS-CoV-2 …
-3 PUFA could also bind to the closed conformation of spike protein and therefore, could …

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein stabilized in the closed state induces potent neutralizing responses

…, S Ebrahimi, L Ceron-Gutierrez, B Asbach… - Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… potent, immune responses than open spikes and that this is likely to include neutralizing
antibodies against conformational epitopes present in the closed conformation. We suggest that …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the neutralizing activity of antibodies targeting open or closed SARS-CoV-2 spike protein conformations

G Cia, F Pucci, M Rooman - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
… protein in its closed conformation is probably more … closed conformation of the spike protein,
thus blocking its transition to an open state and locking the closed pre-fusion conformation, …

Spike conformation transition in SARS-CoV-2 infection

L Luo, Y Zuo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.11288, 2020 - arxiv.org
conformation equilibrium between RBD(closed) and RBD(open). Suppose A denotes closed
conformation and B open conformation. … GB respectively in two conformations. Generally, if …