‘Digital twin’ modeling approach provides new insight that could aid potential vaccine and treatment concepts (IMAGE)
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Molecular simulations of the coronavirus spike protein enable the first visualizations of the region of the spike that anchors to human host cells (called the fusion region). Multiple angled views of the spike protein (green) are superimposed, illustrating the dynamic nature of the fusion region (bulb shaped region towards bottom), overlaid with experimental data determined from cryogenic electron microscopy (shown in cyan). Red sections are glycan molecules.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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