The development of SARS-CoV-2 variants: the gene makes the disease

R Perez-Gomez - Journal of developmental biology, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged towards the end of 2019 that caused a severe
respiratory disease in humans called COVID-19. It led to a pandemic with a high rate of …

SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants: unmasking structure, function, infection, and immune escape mechanisms

J Li, H Jia, M Tian, N Wu, X Yang, J Qi… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
As of April 1, 2022, over 468 million COVID-19 cases and over 6 million deaths have been
confirmed globally. Unlike the common coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has highly contagious …

Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor (LDLR) is involved in internalization of lentiviral particles pseudotyped with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in ocular cells

S Uppal, O Postnikova, R Villasmil, IB Rogozin… - International Journal of …, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Here, we present evidence that caveolae-mediated endocytosis using LDLR is the pathway
for SARS-CoV-2 virus internalization in the ocular cell line ARPE-19. Firstly, we found that …

The 29-nucleotide deletion in SARS-CoV: truncated versions of ORF8 are under purifying selection

A Bykova, A Saura, GV Glazko, A Roche-Lima… - BMC genomics, 2023‏ - Springer
Background Accessory proteins have diverse roles in coronavirus pathobiology. One of
them in SARS-CoV (the causative agent of the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak …

Properties and Mechanisms of Deletions, Insertions, and Substitutions in the Evolutionary History of SARS-CoV-2

IB Rogozin, A Saura, E Poliakov, A Bykova… - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 has accumulated many mutations since its emergence in late 2019.
Nucleotide substitutions leading to amino acid replacements constitute the primary material …

Deletions across the SARS-CoV-2 genome: molecular mechanisms and putative functional consequences of deletions in accessory genes

IB Rogozin, A Saura, A Bykova, V Brover, V Yurchenko - Microorganisms, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
The analysis of deletions may reveal evolutionary trends and provide new insight into the
surprising variability and rapidly spreading capability that SARS-CoV-2 has shown since its …

Genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 alpha, beta and delta variants of concern uncovers signatures of neutral and non-neutral evolution

MK Kurpas, R Jaksik, P Kuś, M Kimmel - Viruses, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Due to the emergence of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the question of how
the viral genomes evolved, leading to the formation of highly infectious strains, becomes …

Genomic and Temporal Analysis of Deletions Correlated to qRT-PCR Dropout in N Gene in Alpha, Delta and Omicron Variants

G Gatti, M Brandolini, A Mancini, F Taddei, S Zannoli… - Viruses, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Since the first SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, mutations such as single nucleotide polymorphisms
(SNPs) and insertion/deletions (INDELs) have changed and characterized the viral genome …

The frequency of defective genomes in Omicron differs from that of the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants

C Campos, S Colomer-Castell, D Garcia-Cehic… - Scientific reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant emerged showing higher transmissibility and
possibly higher resistance to current COVID-19 vaccines than other variants dominating the …