The life of SARS-CoV-2 inside cells: Replication–transcription complex assembly and function

Z Lou, Z Rao - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The persistence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in
increasingly disruptive impacts, and it has become the most devastating challenge to global …

Structures and functions of coronavirus replication–transcription complexes and their relevance for SARS-CoV-2 drug design

B Malone, N Urakova, EJ Snijder… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has killed millions of
people and continues to cause massive global upheaval. Coronaviruses are positive-strand …

A structural view of SARS-CoV-2 RNA replication machinery: RNA synthesis, proofreading and final capping

M Romano, A Ruggiero, F Squeglia, G Maga, R Berisio - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The current coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is due to the novel coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2. The scientific community has mounted a strong response by accelerating …

[HTML][HTML] Structure and function of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase

HS Hillen - Current opinion in virology, 2021 - Elsevier
Coronaviruses use an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) to replicate and express
their genome. The RdRp associates with additional non-structural proteins (nsps) to form a …

[HTML][HTML] Coronavirus biology and replication: implications for SARS-CoV-2

P V'kovski, A Kratzel, S Steiner, H Stalder… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its unprecedented global societal and economic disruptive
impact has marked the third zoonotic introduction of a highly pathogenic coronavirus into the …

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 and implications for therapeutic development

H Yang, Z Rao - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), is an unprecedented global health crisis. However, therapeutic options for …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms and pharmacological interventions in the replication cycle of human coronaviruses

FM Simabuco, RE Tamura, ICB Pavan… - … and Molecular Biology, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2), as well as
SARS-CoV from 2003 along with MERS-CoV from 2012, is a member of the Betacoronavirus …

Precision therapeutic targets for COVID-19

ZA Krumm, GM Lloyd, CP Francis, LH Nasif… - Virology journal, 2021 - Springer
Beginning in late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
emerged as a novel pathogen that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). SARS …

Revealing the structural plasticity of SARS-CoV-2 nsp7 and nsp8 using structural proteomics

VV Courouble, SK Dey, R Yadav, J Timm… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Coronavirus (CoV) nonstructural proteins (nsps) assemble to form the replication–
transcription complex (RTC) responsible for viral RNA synthesis. nsp7 and nsp8 are …

Transient and stabilized complexes of Nsp7, Nsp8, and Nsp12 in SARS-CoV-2 replication

M Wilamowski, M Hammel, W Leite, Q Zhang, Y Kim… - Biophysical journal, 2021 - cell.com
The replication transcription complex (RTC) from the virus SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for
recognizing and processing RNA for two principal purposes. The RTC copies viral RNA for …