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  • Virology
  • Computational biology

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  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2 causes a global pandemic.
  • The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is crucial for viral entry and a key target for vaccines.
  • The spike protein's thermodynamic metastability hinders structural and biochemical studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a computational pipeline for identifying mutations that thermodynamically stabilize the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
  • To facilitate structural and biochemical investigations of the spike protein.
  • To aid in the development of more stable vaccines.

Main Methods:

  • Integration of bioinformatics analysis of conserved residues.
  • Utilizing molecular dynamics simulations to analyze motion dynamics.
  • Employing the Eris protein design tool to predict stabilizing mutations.
  • Validation using known prefusion spike protein mutants.

Main Results:

  • Development of an automated pipeline to identify stabilizing mutations.
  • Successful validation of the pipeline's ability to predict stabilizing mutants.
  • Identification of novel stabilizing mutations for the prefusion spike protein.

Conclusions:

  • The developed pipeline effectively identifies thermodynamically stabilizing mutations for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
  • This tool can accelerate structural studies and vaccine design efforts.
  • The pipeline offers a novel approach to overcoming challenges in studying metastable viral proteins.