Characterising proteolysis during SARS-CoV-2 infection identifies viral cleavage sites and cellular targets with therapeutic potential

B Meyer, J Chiaravalli, S Gellenoncourt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… We identify previously unknown cleavage sites in multiple viral proteins, including major
antigens S and N: the main targets for vaccine and antibody testing efforts. We discover …

SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein forms condensates with viral genomic RNA

A Jack, LS Ferro, MJ Trnka, E Wehri, A Nadgir… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… (N) protein [7], which is the most abundant viral protein in … N protein phase separates with
genomic RNA of SARS-CoV-2, which may play an important role in the packaging of new viral

[HTML][HTML] In vivo structural characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome identifies host proteins vulnerable to repurposed drugs

L Sun, P Li, X Ju, J Rao, W Huang, L Ren, S Zhang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
… of SARS-CoV-2 (and indeed studies of most other viruses) have focused on viral proteins. For
… the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 bound to the cell receptor …

Escape from neutralizing antibodies by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants

Y Weisblum, F Schmidt, F Zhang, J DaSilva, D Poston… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
… VSV/SARS-CoV-2 reporter virus, we show that functional SARS-CoV-2 S protein variants with
… that target specific segments of viral proteins can neutralize virus particles and trigger the …

TLR2 senses the SARS-CoV-2 envelope protein to produce inflammatory cytokines

M Zheng, R Karki, EP Williams, D Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… We therefore hypothesized that TLR2 recognizes viral proteins from β-coronaviruses as well.
To investigate whether viral proteins independent of functioning virions could activate TLR2…

[PDF][PDF] SARS-CoV-2 is sensitive to type I interferon pretreatment

KG Lokugamage, A Hage, C Schindewolf, R Rajsbaum… - BioRxiv, 2020 - scienceopen.com
… Finally, we examined homology between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 in 15 viral proteins
shown to be interferon antagonist. The absence of open reading frame (ORF) 3b 16 and …

Lost in deletion: The enigmatic ORF8 protein of SARS-CoV-2

L Zinzula - Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2021 - Elsevier
… genome, immune evasion as well as in processing of viral proteins and … for virus replication
- the protein encoded by the SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 gene and those encoded by the SARS-CoV

[HTML][HTML] SARSCoV‐2: at the crossroad between aging and neurodegeneration

A Lippi, R Domingues, C Setz, TF Outeiro… - Movement …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
viruses by delivering viruses and viral proteins to lysosomes for degradation. Therefore,
viruses can interfere with protein … concentration and function of viral proteins. H1N1 blocks …

Mechanisms of antiviral immune evasion of SARS-CoV-2

DK Beyer, A Forero - Journal of molecular biology, 2022 - Elsevier
… We also describe the mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins promote host
shutoff. A detailed understanding of the host-pathogen interactions that unbalance the IFN …

[HTML][HTML] A proposed role for the SARSCoV‐2 nucleocapsid protein in the formation and regulation of biomolecular condensates

SM Cascarina, ED Ross - The FASEB Journal, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… by the closely related SARSCoV virus, 4 and the SARSCoV‐2 N protein is considered a
… stress granules, enhance viral replication or translation of viral proteins, and package the …