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. 2022 May;94(5):1773-1776.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.27555. Epub 2022 Jan 8.

From Alpha to Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants: What their evolutionary signatures can tell us?

Robert Andreata-Santos  1 , Luiz M R Janini  1 , Ricardo Durães-Carvalho  1
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From Alpha to Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants: What their evolutionary signatures can tell us?

Robert Andreata-Santos et al. J Med Virol. 2022 May.
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Figure 1
Three‐dimensional structural representation of the SARS‐CoV‐2 Spike protein exhibiting the mutations present in Omicron variant receptor‐binding motif (RBM). Blue and red spheres represent the RBM's substitutions. nAb, vaccine‐induced neutralizing‐antibody (silver); RBM, receptor‐binding motif (yellow) and RBD, receptor‐binding domain (green). The image was created with the Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) v.1.9.3 (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/)
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