id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-329844-w969lczb Robson, B. Bioinformatics studies on a function of the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein as the binding of host sialic acid glycans 2020-06-08 .txt text/plain 15903 664 49 The location of any sialic acid glycan binding region of SARS-CoV-2 is, a priori unclear, although intuitively (a) it would likely be associated with the cap or knob at the outer end of the spike protein, or (b) at least not involve exactly the same domain as is required for other important functions. An algorithm for predicting the domains and proteins involved in sialic acid glycan binding is developed in the course of the project described in Results Section 4, but this is primarily of a highly empirical nature. This, plus a sequence rather than three dimensional structure perspective, and a specific focus on binding sialic acid glycans rather than sugars in general, resulted in a substantial difference in scores from another major method of predicting sugar binding regions of proteins also discussed later below. ./cache/cord-329844-w969lczb.txt ./txt/cord-329844-w969lczb.txt