The emergence, genomic diversity and global spread of SARS-CoV-2

J Li, S Lai, GF Gao, W Shi - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Since the first cases of COVID-19 were documented in Wuhan, China in 2019, the world has
witnessed a devastating global pandemic, with more than 238 million cases, nearly 5 million …

Coronavirus biology and replication: implications for SARS-CoV-2

P V'kovski, A Kratzel, S Steiner, H Stalder… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its unprecedented global societal and economic disruptive
impact has marked the third zoonotic introduction of a highly pathogenic coronavirus into the …

Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells

S Temmam, K Vongphayloth, E Baquero, S Munier… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of SARS-CoV-2-related
viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats,,–, including the closest virus from R. affinis, RaTG13 …

Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

B Hu, H Guo, P Zhou, ZL Shi - Nature reviews microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible
and pathogenic coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and has caused a pandemic of acute …

SARS-CoV-2 accessory proteins in viral pathogenesis: knowns and unknowns

N Redondo, S Zaldívar-López, JJ Garrido… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
There are still many unanswered questions concerning viral SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis in
COVID-19. Accessory proteins in SARS-CoV-2 consist of eleven viral proteins whose roles …

The molecular virology of coronaviruses

E Hartenian, D Nandakumar, A Lari, M Ly… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - jbc.org
Few human pathogens have been the focus of as much concentrated worldwide attention as
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of COVID-19. Its …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of a major deletion in the SARS-CoV-2 genome on the severity of infection and the inflammatory response: an observational cohort study

BE Young, SW Fong, YH Chan, TM Mak, LW Ang… - The lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants with a
382-nucleotide deletion (∆ 382) in the open reading frame 8 (ORF8) region of the genome …

From delta to Omicron: S1-RBD/S2 mutation/deletion equilibrium in SARS-CoV-2 defined variants

V Papanikolaou, A Chrysovergis, V Ragos, E Tsiambas… - Gene, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus-related Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV) in
2002/2003, Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) in 2012/2013, and especially …

Fitness effects of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 proteins

JD Bloom, RA Neher - Virus Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Knowledge of the fitness effects of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 can inform
assessment of new variants, design of therapeutics resistant to escape, and understanding …

Chimeric spike mRNA vaccines protect against Sarbecovirus challenge in mice

DR Martinez, A Schäfer, SR Leist, G De la Cruz, A West… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2003 and
SARS-CoV-2 in 2019 highlights the need to develop universal vaccination strategies against …