Coronavirus Fusion Simulatuioins (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Coronavirus Fusion Simulatuioins

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The mechanism by which the coronavirus fuses to host cells has been suggested through simulations by University of Chicago researchers using the Frontera supercomputer at TACC. Representative depiction of a course-grained (CG) simulation of spike trimers in membrane interacting with an adjacent membrane with ACE2 dimers. The insets depict the CG model components for the spike trimer (bottom), ACE2 dimer (upper left), and lipid membrane (upper right).

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Pak, A.J., Yu, A., Ke, Z. et al.

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