Figure 8
Effect of temperature on the binding of RBD proteins to human ACE2. (a) Measurement of the binding affinity of RBD wt, RBD Q498Y and RBD β at different temperatures using an ELISA-like plate assay (as described in Section 2). The graphs plot the absorbance at 450 nm (y axis) for each RBD concentration in nM (x axis; logarithmic scale). Each point represents a mean absorbance value ± standard deviation (SD). Data were fitted to a saturation, one-site specific binding model built into GraphPad Prism 9.0 to obtain the corresponding curve for each RBD and the Kd values (Table 6). Assays were performed in triplicate. (b) Absorbance values for RBD wt, RBD Q498Y or RBD β binding to ACE2 in a temperature-dependent manner. |