The focus of the project is on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is causing Covid-19

The focus of the project is on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is causing Covid-19. The focus is on the Spike protein, which is the main target for vaccines. Many variants are appearing with mutations in the spike protein. Describe these mutations, and what effect they have on the protein structure

Search for papers using PubMed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). I recommend setting the text availability to free full text. A selection of papers has been posted, this is a starting point for you to dig deeper and select additional papers.

Reference style: refer to the paper in order of appearance using numbers in main body of text, Thus insert number at end of sentence such as “(1)”, and in the reference list use following format: Authors, Year, Title, Journal details including page numbers. Follow this format strictly.

Example: (1) Mei, X., Liu, M., Herscovitz, H., and Atkinson, D. (2016) Probing the C-terminal domain of lipid-free apoA-I demonstrates the vital role of the H10B sequence repeat in HDL formation. J. Lipid Res. 57, 1507−1517.