Recent developments on therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for COVID-19

J Majumder, T Minko - The AAPS journal, 2021 - Springer
The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has made a serious public health …

Remdesivir against COVID-19 and other viral diseases

JJ Malin, I Suárez, V Priesner… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Patients and physicians worldwide are facing tremendous health care hazards that are
caused by the ongoing severe acute respiratory distress syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth's RNA virome

AA Zayed, JM Wainaina, G Dominguez-Huerta… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Whereas DNA viruses are known to be abundant, diverse, and commonly key ecosystem
players, RNA viruses are insufficiently studied outside disease settings. In this study, we …

Muscle5: High-accuracy alignment ensembles enable unbiased assessments of sequence homology and phylogeny

RC Edgar - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple sequence alignments are widely used to infer evolutionary relationships, enabling
inferences of structure, function, and phylogeny. Standard practice is to construct one …

Structural basis for inhibition of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase from SARS-CoV-2 by remdesivir

W Yin, C Mao, X Luan, DD Shen, Q Shen, H Su… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a global crisis. Replication of SARS …

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 proteases and polymerase for COVID-19 treatment: state of the art and future opportunities

R Cannalire, C Cerchia, AR Beccari… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The newly emerged coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, is the causing pathogen of pandemic
COVID-19. The identification of drugs to treat COVID-19 and other coronavirus diseases is …

Nucleotide analogues as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase, a key drug target for COVID-19

M Chien, TK Anderson, S Jockusch, C Tao… - Journal of proteome …, 2020 - ACS Publications
SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic. On the basis of our
analysis of hepatitis C virus and coronavirus replication, and the molecular structures and …

RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitors: The current landscape and repurposing for the COVID-19 pandemic

L Tian, T Qiang, C Liang, X Ren, M Jia, J Zhang… - European journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The widespread nature of several viruses is greatly credited to their rapidly altering RNA
genomes that enable the infection to persist despite challenges presented by host cells …

Origins and evolution of the global RNA virome

YI Wolf, D Kazlauskas, J Iranzo, A Lucía-Sanz, JH Kuhn… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viruses with RNA genomes dominate the eukaryotic virome, reaching enormous diversity in
animals and plants. The recent advances of metaviromics prompted us to perform a detailed …

The nonstructural proteins directing coronavirus RNA synthesis and processing

EJ Snijder, E Decroly, J Ziebuhr - Advances in virus research, 2016 - Elsevier
Coronaviruses are animal and human pathogens that can cause lethal zoonotic infections
like SARS and MERS. They have polycistronic plus-stranded RNA genomes and belong to …