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Coronavirus mutations reported within the past week by scientists in the UK have raised concern about an increased transmission rate of COVID-19. The report even temporarily closed the borders between the UK, France, and other EU countries, causing huge backups of trucking and supply concerns. See the locations of the 4 most concerning mutations on a rotating 3D model of spike protein with interpretations of their likely consequences at this article posted December 22, 2020: http://proteopedia.org/w/SARS-CoV-2_spike_protein_mutations The article is written to be suitable for high-school students and higher. There are links to additional background material as well as references to reliable scientific publications and news sources. The article offers a downloadable movie of the spike protein, slide presentation-ready, showing the conformational change when it is primed, with the locations of mutations indicated. -Eric Martz Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology (he/him/his) University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA US Martz.MolviZ.Org<http://Martz.MolviZ.Org> <http://martz.molviz.org/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.bioinformatics.org/pipermail/proteopedialist-for-users/attachments/20201223/bc8e1a52/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Proteopedialist-for-users mailing list proteopedialist-for-us...@bioinformatics.org<mailto:proteopedialist-for-us...@bioinformatics.org> http://www.bioinformatics.org/mm/listinfo/proteopedialist-for-users ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
