[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness

AM Carabelli, TP Peacock, LG Thorne… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In late 2020, after circulating for almost a year in the human population, severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibited a major step change in its …

[HTML][HTML] High-content CRISPR screening

C Bock, P Datlinger, F Chardon, MA Coelho… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR screens are a powerful source of biological discovery, enabling the unbiased
interrogation of gene function in a wide range of applications and species. In pooled …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 entry into cells

CB Jackson, M Farzan, B Chen, H Choe - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
The unprecedented public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic caused
by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been …

[PDF][PDF] The origins of SARS-CoV-2: A critical review

EC Holmes, SA Goldstein, AL Rasmussen… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Since the first reports of a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronavirus
in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, there has been intense interest in understanding how …

[HTML][HTML] The furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is required for transmission in ferrets

TP Peacock, DH Goldhill, J Zhou, L Baillon… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 entry requires sequential cleavage of the spike glycoprotein at the S1/S2 and
the S2ʹ cleavage sites to mediate membrane fusion. SARS-CoV-2 has a polybasic insertion …

Masitinib is a broad coronavirus 3CL inhibitor that blocks replication of SARS-CoV-2

N Drayman, JK DeMarco, KA Jones, SA Azizi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
There is an urgent need for antiviral agents that treat severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We screened a library of 1900 clinically safe drugs …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular host factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection

J Baggen, E Vanstreels, S Jansen, D Daelemans - Nature Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has claimed millions of lives
and caused a global economic crisis. No effective antiviral drugs are currently available to …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide bidirectional CRISPR screens identify mucins as host factors modulating SARS-CoV-2 infection

SB Biering, SA Sarnik, E Wang, JR Zengel, SR Leist… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes a range of
symptoms in infected individuals, from mild respiratory illness to acute respiratory distress …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacological disruption of mSWI/SNF complex activity restricts SARS-CoV-2 infection

J Wei, A Patil, CK Collings, MM Alfajaro, Y Liang… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of host determinants of coronavirus infection informs mechanisms of viral
pathogenesis and can provide new drug targets. Here we demonstrate that mammalian …

[PDF][PDF] TMEM106B is a receptor mediating ACE2-independent SARS-CoV-2 cell entry

J Baggen, M Jacquemyn, L Persoons, E Vanstreels… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with broad tissue tropism, a characteristic often determined by
the availability of entry receptors on host cells. Here, we show that TMEM106B, a lysosomal …