SARS‐CoV‐2, the pandemic coronavirus: Molecular and structural insights

SB Kadam, GS Sukhramani, P Bishnoi… - Journal of basic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The outbreak of a novel coronavirus associated with acute respiratory disease, called
COVID‐19, marked the introduction of the third spillover of an animal coronavirus (CoV) to …

Antiviral strategies targeting host factors and mechanisms obliging+ ssRNA viral pathogens

S Mahajan, S Choudhary, P Kumar, S Tomar - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, periodic recurrence of viral infections, and the
emergence of challenging variants has created an urgent need of alternative therapeutic …

Structure of papain-like protease from SARS-CoV-2 and its complexes with non-covalent inhibitors

J Osipiuk, SA Azizi, S Dvorkin, M Endres… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) continues to expand. Papain-like protease (PLpro) is one of two SARS-CoV-2 proteases …

Secondary structural ensembles of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome in infected cells

TCT Lan, MF Allan, LE Malsick, JZ Woo, C Zhu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 is a betacoronavirus with a single-stranded, positive-sense, 30-kilobase RNA
genome responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Although population average …

Comprehensive in vivo secondary structure of the SARS-CoV-2 genome reveals novel regulatory motifs and mechanisms

NC Huston, H Wan, MS Strine, RCA Tavares, CB Wilen… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the
positive-sense RNA virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The genome …

Structural basis of ribosomal frameshifting during translation of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome

PR Bhatt, A Scaiola, G Loughran, M Leibundgut… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Programmed ribosomal frameshifting is a key event during translation of the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA genome that allows synthesis of the …

RNA genome conservation and secondary structure in SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-related viruses: a first look

R Rangan, IN Zheludev, RJ Hagey, EA Pham… - Rna, 2020 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
As the COVID-19 outbreak spreads, there is a growing need for a compilation of conserved
RNA genome regions in the SARS-CoV-2 virus along with their structural propensities to …

Cryo-EM and antisense targeting of the 28-kDa frameshift stimulation element from the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome

K Zhang, IN Zheludev, RJ Hagey, R Haslecker… - Nature Structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
Drug discovery campaigns against COVID-19 are beginning to target the SARS-CoV-2 RNA
genome. The highly conserved frameshift stimulation element (FSE), required for balanced …

The short-and long-range RNA-RNA interactome of SARS-CoV-2

O Ziv, J Price, L Shalamova, T Kamenova, I Goodfellow… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
The Coronaviridae is a family of positive-strand RNA viruses that includes SARS-CoV-2, the
etiologic agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bearing the largest single-stranded RNA …

Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome with small molecule binders and ribonuclease targeting chimera (RIBOTAC) degraders

HS Haniff, Y Tong, X Liu, JL Chen, BM Suresh… - ACS Central …, 2020 - ACS Publications
COVID-19 is a global pandemic, thus requiring multiple strategies to develop modalities
against it. Herein, we designed multiple bioactive small molecules that target a functional …