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Distant sequence similarity between hepcidin and the novel coronavirus spike glycoprotein: a potential hint at the possibility of local iron dysregulation in COVID-19
Sepehr Ehsani
The spike glycoprotein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, has attracted attention for its vaccine potential and binding capacity to host cell surface receptors. Much o…
The challenges of purely mechanistic models in biology and the minimum need for a 'mechanism-plus-X' framework
Sepehr Ehsani
Ever since the advent of molecular biology in the 1970s, mechanical models have become the dogma in the field, where a "true" understanding of any subject is equated to a mechanist…
A framework for philosophical biology
Sepehr Ehsani
Advances in biology have mostly relied on theories that were subsequently revised, expanded or eventually refuted using experimental and other means. Theoretical biology used to pr…
Identification of the Zeo1 Protein as a Candidate Structural Homolog of α-Synuclein in Budding Yeast
Sepehr Ehsani
Human α-synuclein (SNCA) is a 140-amino-acid protein belonging to the three-member synuclein family. It has been extensively studied due to its misfolding/aggregation in and geneti…
Correlative-causative structures and the 'pericause': an analysis of causation and a model based on cellular biology
Sepehr Ehsani
The advent of molecular biology has led to the identification of definitive causative factors for a number of diseases, most of which are monogenic. Causes for most common diseases…
Macro-trends in research on the central dogma of molecular biology
Sepehr Ehsani
The central dogma of molecular biology, formulated more than five decades ago, compartmentalized information exchange in the cell into the DNA, RNA and protein domains. This formal…