Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Liquid–liquid phase separation in human health and diseases

B Wang, L Zhang, T Dai, Z Qin, H Lu, L Zhang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Emerging evidence suggests that liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) represents a vital
and ubiquitous phenomenon underlying the formation of membraneless organelles in …

Rapid assessment of SARS-CoV-2–evolved variants using virus-like particles

AM Syed, TY Taha, T Tabata, IP Chen, A Ciling… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Efforts to determine why new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) variants demonstrate improved fitness have been limited to analyzing mutations in the …

Innate immune evasion strategies of SARS-CoV-2

JM Minkoff, B tenOever - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has been
associated with substantial global morbidity and mortality. Despite a tropism that is largely …

Structure of SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein essential for virus assembly

Z Zhang, N Nomura, Y Muramoto, T Ekimoto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The coronavirus membrane protein (M) is the most abundant viral structural protein and
plays a central role in virus assembly and morphogenesis. However, the process of M …

SARS-CoV-2-specific immune response and the pathogenesis of COVID-19

E Gusev, A Sarapultsev, L Solomatina… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The review aims to consolidate research findings on the molecular mechanisms and
virulence and pathogenicity characteristics of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) causative …

Learning the chemical grammar of biomolecular condensates

HR Kilgore, RA Young - Nature chemical biology, 2022 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates compartmentalize and regulate assemblies of biomolecules
engaged in vital physiological processes in cells. Specific proteins and nucleic acids …

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] The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein is dynamic, disordered, and phase separates with RNA

J Cubuk, JJ Alston, JJ Incicco, S Singh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein is an abundant RNA-binding protein
critical for viral genome packaging, yet the molecular details that underlie this process are …

[PDF][PDF] Phosphoregulation of phase separation by the SARS-CoV-2 N protein suggests a biophysical basis for its dual functions

CR Carlson, JB Asfaha, CM Ghent, CJ Howard… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
The nucleocapsid (N) protein of coronaviruses serves two major functions: compaction of the
RNA genome in the virion and regulation of viral gene transcription. It is not clear how the N …