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Light and corona: guided-wave readout for coronavirus spike protein–host-receptor binding

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Abstract

We show that waveguide sensors can enable a quantitative characterization of coronavirus spike glycoprotein–host-receptor binding—the process whereby coronaviruses enter human cells, causing disease. We demonstrate that such sensors can help quantify and eventually understand kinetic and thermodynamic properties of viruses that control their affinity to targeted cells, which is known to significantly vary in the course of virus evolution, e.g.,  from SARS-CoV to SARS-CoV-2, making the development of virus-specific drugs and vaccine difficult. With the binding rate constants and thermodynamic parameters as suggested by the latest SARS-CoV-2 research, optical sensors of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein–receptor binding may be within sight.

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