Continuous and discontinuous RNA synthesis in coronaviruses

I Sola, F Almazán, S Zúñiga… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Replication of the coronavirus genome requires continuous RNA synthesis, whereas
transcription is a discontinuous process unique among RNA viruses. Transcription includes …

Potential roles of micronutrient deficiency and immune system dysfunction in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

A Gorji, MK Ghadiri - Nutrition, 2021 - Elsevier
Preliminary studies indicate that a robust immune response across different cell types is
crucial in recovery from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). An enormous number of …

Loss of furin cleavage site attenuates SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis

BA Johnson, X Xie, AL Bailey, B Kalveram… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—a new coronavirus that
has led to a worldwide pandemic—has a furin cleavage site (PRRAR) in its spike protein …

A mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 induces acute lung injury and mortality in standard laboratory mice

SR Leist, KH Dinnon, A Schäfer, VT Longping, K Okuda… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused extreme human suffering and economic harm. We
generated and characterized a new mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 virus that captures …

[HTML][HTML] Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from patient with coronavirus disease, United States

J Harcourt, A Tamin, X Lu, S Kamili… - Emerging infectious …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The etiologic agent of an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, was identified as severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in January 2020. A patient in the United States …

SARS-CoV-2 induces double-stranded RNA-mediated innate immune responses in respiratory epithelial-derived cells and cardiomyocytes

Y Li, DM Renner, CE Comar… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Coronaviruses are adept at evading host antiviral pathways induced by viral double-
stranded RNA, including interferon (IFN) signaling, oligoadenylate synthetase–ribonuclease …

Type I interferon susceptibility distinguishes SARS-CoV-2 from SARS-CoV

KG Lokugamage, A Hage, M de Vries… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus (CoV) that causes COVID-19, has recently
emerged causing an ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia around the world. While distinct …

Coronavirus susceptibility to the antiviral remdesivir (GS-5734) is mediated by the viral polymerase and the proofreading exoribonuclease

ML Agostini, EL Andres, AC Sims, RL Graham… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Emerging coronaviruses (CoVs) cause severe disease in humans, but no approved
therapeutics are available. The CoV nsp14 exoribonuclease (ExoN) has complicated …

Broad-spectrum antiviral GS-5734 inhibits both epidemic and zoonotic coronaviruses

TP Sheahan, AC Sims, RL Graham… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Emerging viral infections are difficult to control because heterogeneous members
periodically cycle in and out of humans and zoonotic hosts, complicating the development of …

Discovery and genomic characterization of a 382-nucleotide deletion in ORF7b and ORF8 during the early evolution of SARS-CoV-2

YCF Su, DE Anderson, BE Young, M Linster, F Zhu… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
To date, limited genetic changes in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) genome have been described. Here, we report a 382-nucleotide (nt) deletion …