Publications by authors named "Lavanya Vumma"
Microorganisms
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- A new method called physicochemical dynamic time warping (PCDTW) has been proposed to classify coronavirus spike protein receptor binding domains (RBD) based on specific amino acid properties like molecular weight and hydrophobicity.
- This method aims to uncover structural and functional relationships that may exist over longer evolutionary periods compared to traditional sequence alignment techniques.
- The study found that certain virus families, particularly Arteriviridae and Toroviridae, showed greater physicochemical similarities in RBDs to betacoronaviruses than to their own group members, suggesting potential shared structures and functions.
