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[Preprint]. 2021 Sep 9:arXiv:2109.04509v1. [Version 1]

Table 1:

Top 25 most observed S protein RBD mutations. Here, BFE change refers to the BFE change for the S protein and human ACE2 complex induced by a single-site S protein RBD mutation. A positive mutation-induced BFE change strengthens the binding between S protein and ACE2, which results in more infectious variants. Counts of antibody disruption represent the number of antibody and S protein complexes disrupted by a specific RBD mutation. Here, an antibody and S protein complex is to be disrupted if its binding affinity is reduced by more than 0.3 kcal/mol [18]. In addition, we calculate the antibody disruption ratio (%), which is the ratio of the number of disrupted antibody and S protein complexes over 130 known complexes. Ranks are computed from 683 observed RBD mutations.

Mutation Worldwide BFE change Antibody disruption
Count Rank Change Rank Count Ratio Rank
N501Y 744354 1 0.5499 30 24 18.46 160
L452R 259345 2 0.5752 28 39 30.0 98
T478K 239619 3 0.9994 2 2 1.54 557
E484K 84167 4 0.0946 272 38 29.23 104
K417T 37748 5 0.0116 433 37 28.46 107
S477N 32673 6 0.0180 422 0 0.0 650
N439K 16154 7 0.1792 159 11 8.46 272
K417N 8399 8 0.1661 176 53 40.77 61
F490S 5617 9 0.4406 52 51 39.23 67
S494P 5119 10 0.0902 282 62 47.69 46
N440K 3379 11 0.6161 22 0 0.0 645
E484Q 3229 12 0.0057 442 30 23.08 130
L452Q 2858 13 0.9802 3 27 20.77 144
A520S 2727 14 0.1495 199 3 2.31 497
N501T 2054 15 0.4514 48 17 13.08 202
R357K 1973 16 0.1393 208 5 3.85 388
A522S 1959 17 0.1283 221 2 1.54 543
R346K 1686 18 0.1234 229 6 4.62 380
V367F 1395 19 0.1764 161 0 0.0 637
N440S 1361 20 0.1499 197 2 1.54 542
P384L 1155 21 0.2681 105 18 13.85 199
Y449S 1146 22 −0.8112 632 85 65.38 16
D427N 1106 23 −0.1133 558 1 0.77 589
R346S 1037 24 0.0374 386 20 15.38 182
A475V 891 25 0.3069 94 10 7.69 289