COVID-19, renin-angiotensin system and endothelial dysfunction

R Amraei, N Rahimi - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The newly emergent novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, which is caused
by SARS-CoV-2 virus, has posed a serious threat to global public health and caused …

Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

P Simmonds, MJ Adams, M Benkő, M Breitbart… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The number and diversity of viral sequences that are identified in metagenomic data far
exceeds that of experimentally characterized virus isolates. In a recent workshop, a panel of …

Membrane binding proteins of coronaviruses

EA J Alsaadi, IM Jones - Future Virology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Coronaviruses (CoVs) infect many species causing a variety of diseases with a range of
severities. Their members include zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential where …

Capulavirus and Grablovirus: two new genera in the family Geminiviridae

A Varsani, P Roumagnac, M Fuchs, J Navas-Castillo… - Archives of …, 2017 - Springer
Geminiviruses are plant-infecting single-stranded DNA viruses that occur in most parts of the
world. Currently, there are seven genera within the family Geminiviridae (Becurtovirus …

Multiple origins of viral capsid proteins from cellular ancestors

M Krupovic, EV Koonin - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on earth and show remarkable diversity of
genome sequences, replication and expression strategies, and virion structures …

Transmission of begomoviruses and other whitefly-borne viruses: Dependence on the vector species

E Fiallo-Olivé, LL Pan, SS Liu… - Phytopathology, 2020 - Am Phytopath Society
Most plant viruses require a biological vector to spread from plant to plant in nature. Among
biological vectors for plant viruses, hemipteroid insects are the most common, including …

Improved vaccine against PRRSV: current progress and future perspective

Y Nan, C Wu, G Gu, W Sun, YJ Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), one of the most
economically significant pathogens worldwide, has caused numerous outbreaks during the …

The family Rhabdoviridae: mono-and bipartite negative-sense RNA viruses with diverse genome organization and common evolutionary origins

RG Dietzgen, H Kondo, MM Goodin, G Kurath… - Virus research, 2017 - Elsevier
The family Rhabdoviridae consists of mostly enveloped, bullet-shaped or bacilliform viruses
with a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA genome that infect vertebrates, invertebrates or …

Probing the SAM binding site of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp14 in vitro using SAM competitive inhibitors guides developing selective bisubstrate inhibitors

K Devkota, M Schapira, S Perveen… - … the Science of Drug …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly brought the healthcare systems worldwide to a
breaking point, along with devastating socioeconomic consequences. The SARS-CoV-2 …

A planarian nidovirus expands the limits of RNA genome size

A Saberi, AA Gulyaeva, JL Brubacher… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
RNA viruses are the only known RNA-protein (RNP) entities capable of autonomous
replication (albeit within a permissive host environment). A 33.5 kilobase (kb) nidovirus has …