Cryptic pathogen-sugar interactions revealed by universal saturation transfer analysis
C. J. Buchanan, B. Gaunt, P. J. Harrison, Y. Yang, J. Liu, A. Khan, A. M. Giltrap, A. Le Bas, P. N. Ward, K. Gupta, M. Dumoux, S. Daga, N. Picchiotti, M. Baldassarri, E. Benetti, , B. G. Davis
This paper introduces uSTA, an NMR method to analyze protein-ligand interactions, revealing SARS-CoV-2 spike binds sialoside sugars via the NTD and showing variants-of-concern lose this binding.
bioRxiv · Apr 14, 2021Biophysics