How much energy is stored in SARS‐CoV‐2 and its structural elements?

B Şimşek, M Özilgen, FŞ Utku - Energy Storage, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is the virus causing the
COVID‐19 disease. Data regarding the morphological properties of this virus are collected …

Thermodynamic insight into viral infections 2: empirical formulas, molecular compositions and thermodynamic properties of SARS, MERS and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID …

M Popovic, M Minceva - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
The current situation with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic indicates the importance of new
approaches in vaccine design. In order to design new attenuated vaccines, to decrease …

Upcoming epidemic storm: Empirical formulas, biosynthesis reactions, thermodynamic properties and driving forces of multiplication of the omicron XBB. 1.9. 1, XBF …

ME Popovic, M Mihailović, S Panić - Microbial Risk Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 from the perspectives of medicine, biology, molecular
biology, chemistry and biothermodynamics represent probably the best studied virus-host …

[HTML][HTML] Strain Wars 4-Darwinian evolution through Gibbs' glasses: Gibbs energies of binding and growth explain evolution of SARS-CoV-2 from Hu-1 to BA. 2

M Popovic - Virology, 2022 - Elsevier
All processes in nature are driven by negative Gibbs energy. Gibbs energy is used by
various viruses and their strains to hijack host cell metabolic machinery. The analysis was …

Corona virus versus existence of human on the earth: A computational and biophysical approach

Z Zehra, M Luthra, SM Siddiqui, A Shamsi… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 has a positive sense RNA genome of 29.9 kb in size, showing high sequence
similarity to the BAT-CoV, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV. SARS-CoV-2 is composed of 14 open …

[HTML][HTML] Strain wars 2: Binding constants, enthalpies, entropies, Gibbs energies and rates of binding of SARS-CoV-2 variants

M Popovic - Virology, 2022 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 virus is the cause of COVID-19 pandemic and belongs to RNA viruses,
showing great tendency to mutate. Several dozens of mutations have been observed on the …

Beyond COVID-19: Do biothermodynamic properties allow predicting the future evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants?

M Popovic - Microbial risk analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many statistical and epidemiological studies have been
published, trying to predict the future development of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. However …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging mutations in envelope protein of SARS-CoV-2 and their effect on thermodynamic properties

K Mou, M Abdalla, DQ Wei, MT Khan, MS Lodhi… - Informatics in medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
Structural proteins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are
potential drug targets due to their role in the virus life cycle. The envelope (E) protein is one …

The SARS-CoV-2 Hydra, a tiny monster from the 21st century: Thermodynamics of the BA. 5.2 and BF. 7 variants

M Popovic - Microbial Risk Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 resembles the ancient mythical creature Hydra. Just like with the Hydra, when
one head is cut, it is followed by appearance of two more heads, suppression of one SARS …

[HTML][HTML] Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: A recent mini review

MF ur Rehman, C Fariha, A Anwar, N Shahzad… - Computational and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19, caused by a novel coronavirus, was declared as a global pandemic by WHO
more than five months ago, and we are still experiencing a state of global emergency. More …