Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2: open the door for novel therapies

W Yan, Y Zheng, X Zeng, B He, W Cheng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative
agent of the pandemic disease COVID-19, which is so far without efficacious treatment. The …

The initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication

A Costa, JFX Diffley - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
DNA replication in eukaryotic cells initiates from large numbers of sites called replication
origins. Initiation of replication from these origins must be tightly controlled to ensure the …

Structural basis for helicase-polymerase coupling in the SARS-CoV-2 replication-transcription complex

J Chen, B Malone, E Llewellyn, M Grasso… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of the 2019–2020 pandemic. The SARS-CoV-2 genome
is replicated and transcribed by the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase holoenzyme …

Mechanisms of action and regulation of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodelling complexes

CR Clapier, J Iwasa, BR Cairns… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Cells utilize diverse ATP-dependent nucleosome-remodelling complexes to carry out
histone sliding, ejection or the incorporation of histone variants, suggesting that different …

An iron–sulfur cluster in the zinc-binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 helicase modulates its RNA-binding and-unwinding activities

N Maio, MK Raza, Y Li, DL Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of
COVID-19, uses an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase along with several accessory factors …

Delicate structural coordination of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus Nsp13 upon ATP hydrolysis

Z Jia, L Yan, Z Ren, L Wu, J Wang, J Guo… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
To date, an effective therapeutic treatment that confers strong attenuation toward
coronaviruses (CoVs) remains elusive. Of all the potential drug targets, the helicase of CoVs …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial molecular machines

S Erbas-Cakmak, DA Leigh, CT McTernan… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

Double-stranded RNA sensors and modulators in innate immunity

S Hur - Annual review of immunology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Detection of double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) is a central mechanism of innate immune
defense in many organisms. We here discuss several families of dsRNA-binding proteins …

The 3D genome as moderator of chromosomal communication

J Dekker, L Mirny - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Proper expression of genes requires communication with their regulatory elements that can
be located elsewhere along the chromosome. The physics of chromatin fibers imposes a …

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 …