The SARS-CoV-2 Hydra, a tiny monster from the 21st century: Thermodynamics of the BA.5.2 and BF.7 variants

Atom counting method for determining elemental composition of viruses and its applications in biothermodynamics and environmental science

(2022) Marko Popovic   COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Strain Wars: Competitive interactions between SARS-CoV-2 strains are explained by Gibbs energy of antigen-receptor binding

(2022) Marko Popovic et al.   Microbial Risk Analysis

Strain wars 2: Binding constants, enthalpies, entropies, Gibbs energies and rates of binding of SARS-CoV-2 variants

(2022) Marko Popovic   VIROLOGY

Understanding the Driving Forces That Trigger Mutations in SARS-CoV-2: Mutational Energetics and the Role of Arginine Blockers in COVID-19 Therapy

(2022) Harry Ridgway et al.   Viruses-Basel

Strain wars 3: Differences in infectivity and pathogenicity between Delta and Omicron strains of SARS-CoV-2 can be explained by thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of binding and growth

(2022) Marko Popovic   Microbial Risk Analysis

Assembly of Poly(ethylene glycol)ylated Oleanolic Acid on a Linear Polymer as a Pseudomucin for Influenza Virus Inhibition and Adsorption

(2022) JiaPing Zhou et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Novel Bacteriophage Specific against Staphylococcus epidermidis and with Antibiofilm Activity

(2022) Rima Fanaei Pirlar et al.   Viruses-Basel

Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 omicron subvariant BA.4.6 to antibody neutralisation

(2022) Qian Wang et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Strain wars 4 - Darwinian evolution through Gibbs’ glasses: Gibbs energies of binding and growth explain evolution of SARS-CoV-2 from Hu-1 to BA.2

(2022) Marko Popovic   VIROLOGY

Strain wars 5: Gibbs energies of binding of BA.1 through BA.4 variants of SARS-CoV-2

(2022) Marko Popovic   Microbial Risk Analysis

Biothermodynamics of Viruses from Absolute Zero (1950) to Virothermodynamics (2022)

(2022) Marko Popovic   Vaccines

Beyond COVID-19: Do biothermodynamic properties allow predicting the future evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants?

(2022) Marko Popovic   Microbial Risk Analysis

Why doesn't Ebola virus cause pandemics like SARS-CoV-2?

(2022) Marko Popovic   Microbial Risk Analysis

Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 Orf9b in complex with human TOM70 suggests unusual virus-host interactions

(2021) Xiaopan Gao et al.   Nature Communications

Understanding the molecular interaction of SARS-CoV-2 spike mutants with ACE2 (angiotensin converting enzyme 2)

(2021) Erman Salih Istifli et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS

Single virus inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy analysis: A comprehensive study

(2021) Claude Degueldre   TALANTA

Clinical Phage Microbiology: a suggested framework and recommendations for the in-vitro matching steps of phage therapy

(2021) Daniel Gelman et al.   Lancet Microbe

Database resources of the national center for biotechnology information

(2021) Eric W Sayers et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Coinfection and Interference Phenomena Are the Results of Multiple Thermodynamic Competitive Interactions

(2021) Marko Popovic et al.   Microorganisms

Using thermodynamic equilibrium models to predict the effect of antiviral agents on infectivity: Theoretical application to SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses.

(2021) Paul Gale   Microbial Risk Analysis

Antibacterial Efficacy of Two Commercially Available Bacteriophage Formulations, Staphylococcal Bacteriophage and PYO Bacteriophage, Against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Prevention and Eradication of Biofilm Formation and Control of a Systemic Infection of Galleria mellonella Larvae

(2020) Tamta Tkhilaishvili et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Mechanism of bio-macromolecule denaturation on solid-liquid surface of ion-exchange chromatographic media – A case study for inactivated foot-and-mouth disease virus

(2020) Yanli Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES

Using Bacteriophages as a Trojan Horse to the Killing of Dual-Species Biofilm Formed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2020) Tamta Tkhilaishvili et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Entropy-Based Pandemics Forecasting

(2020) Umberto Lucia et al.   Frontiers in Physics

Bacteriophage-antibiotic combinations against ciprofloxacin/ceftriaxone-resistant Escherichia coli in vitro and in an experimental Galleria mellonella model

(2020) Lei Wang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

COVID‐19 disease causes an energy supply deficit in a patient

(2020) Mustafa Özilgen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH

Polymerization and editing modes of a high-fidelity DNA polymerase are linked by a well-defined path

(2020) Thomas Dodd et al.   Nature Communications

Ribosome-mediated polymerization of long chain carbon and cyclic amino acids into peptides in vitro

(2020) Joongoo Lee et al.   Nature Communications

The SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein Biosynthesis, Structure, Function, and Antigenicity: Implications for the Design of Spike-Based Vaccine Immunogens

(2020) Liangwei Duan et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

The κ-statistics approach to epidemiology

(2020) Giorgio Kaniadakis et al.   Scientific Reports

Elucidating the Thermodynamic Driving Forces of Polyanion-Templated Virus-like Particle Assembly

(2019) Stan J. Maassen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Real-time assessment of bacteriophage T3-derived antimicrobial activity against planktonic and biofilm-embedded Escherichia coli by isothermal microcalorimetry

(2018) Tamta Tkhilaishvili et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Research in entropy wonterland: A review of the entropy concept

(2018) Marko Popovic   Thermal Science

Bacteriophage Sb-1 enhances antibiotic activity against biofilm, degrades exopolysaccharide matrix and targets persisters of Staphylococcus aureus

(2018) Tamta Tkhilaishvili et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

Inactivation of human and avian influenza viruses by potassium oleate of natural soap component through exothermic interaction

(2018) Takayoshi Kawahara et al.   PLoS One

GISAID: Global initiative on sharing all influenza data – from vision to reality

(2017) Yuelong Shu et al.   Eurosurveillance

Structural basis of apoptosis inhibition by the fowlpox virus protein FPV039

(2017) Mohd Ishtiaq Anasir et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Living organisms from Prigogine’s perspective: an opportunity to introduce students to biological entropy balance

(2017) Marko Popovic   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL EDUCATION

Stabilization study of inactivated foot and mouth disease virus vaccine by size-exclusion HPLC and differential scanning calorimetry

(2017) Yanli Yang et al.   VACCINE

Insights into Protein–Ligand Interactions: Mechanisms, Models, and Methods

(2016) Xing Du et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

A Conserved Pocket in the Dengue Virus Polymerase Identified through Fragment-based Screening

(2016) Christian G. Noble et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Inhibition of chikungunya virus by picolinate that targets viral capsid protein

(2016) Rajesh Sharma et al.   VIROLOGY

Hydrated Silica Exterior Produced by Biomimetic Silicification Confers Viral Vaccine Heat-Resistance

(2015) Guangchuan Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Microcalorimetric study of adsorption and disassembling of virus-like particles on anion exchange chromatography media

(2015) Mengran Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A

Exploring the Balance between DNA Pressure and Capsid Stability in Herpesviruses and Phages

(2015) D. W. Bauer et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Preclinical Activity of VX-787, a First-in-Class, Orally Bioavailable Inhibitor of the Influenza Virus Polymerase PB2 Subunit

(2014) Randal A. Byrn et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Hepatitis C virus NS5A is able to competitively displace c-Myc from the Bin1 SH3 domainin vitro

(2014) Amine Aladag et al.   JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Solid-to-fluid-like DNA transition in viruses facilitates infection

(2014) T. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aurintricarboxylic Acid Modulates the Affinity of Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Helicase for Both Nucleic Acid and ATP

(2013) William R. Shadrick et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Herpes Virus Genome, The Pressure Is On

(2013) David W. Bauer et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chip-calorimetric monitoring of biofilm eradication with bacteriophages reveals an unexpected infection-related heat profile

(2013) Frida Mariana Morais et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY

Structural Lability of Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus Virions

(2013) Valentin V. Makarov et al.   PLoS One

Replicative DNA Polymerases

(2013) E. Johansson et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Heat output by marine microbial and viral communities

(2012) Essmaiil Djamali et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS

Molecular and structural characterization of the L1 virus-like particles that are used as vaccine antigens inCervarix™, the AS04-adjuvanted HPV-16 and -18 cervical cancer vaccine

(2010) Michel Deschuyteneer et al.   Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

A structural analysis of M protein in coronavirus assembly and morphology

(2010) Benjamin W. Neuman et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Calorimetric real time monitoring of lambda prophage induction

(2010) Thomas Maskow et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGICAL METHODS

Structure and Function of a Genetically Engineered Mimic of a Nonenveloped Virus Entry Intermediate

(2010) M. Banerjee et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Basic Residues within the Ebolavirus VP35 Protein Are Required for Its Viral Polymerase Cofactor Function

(2010) Kathleen C. Prins et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Light activation of transcription: photocaging of nucleotides for control over RNA polymerization

(2008) A. V. Pinheiro et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH