Enhanced stability of the SARS CoV-2 spike glycoprotein following modification of an alanine cavity in the protein core

• Pantelis Poumbourios ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: andy.poumbourios@burnet.edu.au

  Affiliations Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2772-1962

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• Christine Langer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Irene Boo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Tasnim Zakir,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Rob J. Center,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Microbiology at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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• Anouschka Akerman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

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• Vanessa Milogiannakis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

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• Anupriya Aggarwal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

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• Bronte A. Johnstone,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

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• Jungmin Ha,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

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• Fasséli Coulibaly,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

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• Stuart G. Turville,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

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• Heidi E. Drummer

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, Department of Microbiology at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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