Mutation-Induced Long-Range Allosteric Interactions in the Spike Protein Determine the Infectivity of SARS-CoV‑2 Emerging Variants

• Jayanta Kumar Das,
• Bikash Thakuri,
• Krishnan MohanKumar,
• Swarup Roy,
• Adnan Sljoka,
• Gui-Quan Sun,
• Amit Chakraborty

Affiliations

Jayanta Kumar Das

Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Bikash Thakuri

Department of Mathematics, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

Krishnan MohanKumar

Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Swarup Roy

Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

Adnan Sljoka

RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan

Gui-Quan Sun

Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Amit Chakraborty

Department of Mathematics, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India