Different aspects in explaining how mutations could affect the binding mechanism of receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in interaction with ACE2

• Farzaneh Jafary,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Core Research Facilities (CRF), Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran, Isfahan Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

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• Farzane Abasi Joozdani,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biological Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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• Kiana Shahzamani,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Hepatitis Research Center, School of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran

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• Sepideh Jafari,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2852-2831

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• Hossein Mirhendi,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Core Research Facilities (CRF), Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran, Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohamad Reza Ganjalikhany

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.ganjalikhany@sci.ui.ac.ir

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Science and Technology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6865-0814

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