Evolutionary dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 accessory gene

F Pereira - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
… than other SARS-CoV-2 genes. Here I show that ORF8 is poorly conserved among related
coronaviruses. The ORF8 phylogeny built using 11,113 SARS-CoV-2 sequences revealed …

Structure of SARS-CoV-2 ORF8, a rapidly evolving immune evasion protein

TG Flower, CZ Buffalo, RM Hooy… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
… We generated SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 protein by expression in Escherichia coli and oxidative
refolding. The structure of SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 was determined by X-ray crystallography at a …

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

L Zinzula - Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2021 - Elsevier
… milder Covid-19 phenotype associated to the SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 gene full deletion and
the functions ascribed to the SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 … the ORF8 potential as hotspot of SARS-CoV-2

[HTML][HTML] A unique view of SARS-CoV-2 through the lens of ORF8 protein

…, D Barh, EM Redwan, GW Dayhoff II… - Computers in biology …, 2021 - Elsevier
… syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) attributed to its ORF8 … the ORF8 protein, a
comprehensive study of the ORF8 protein … Chemical and structural properties of ORF8 proteins …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 and SARS-CoV ORF8ab: genomic divergence and functional convergence

S Mohammad, A Bouchama, B Mohammad Alharbi… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
coronavirus pathobiology. Here, we analyze certain genomic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2
accessory protein ORF8 … other features of ORF8 and ORF8ab, its homolog from SARS-CoV. …

[HTML][HTML] Structural analysis of SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 protein: pathogenic and therapeutic implications

A Valcarcel, A Bensussen, ER Álvarez-Buylla… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
coronavirus in animals. These mutations, regardless of their effects on ORF8 itself, can influence
the biology of SARS-CoV-2 … , and diagnostics against this coronavirus (Chan et al., 2020…

The ORF6, ORF8 and nucleocapsid proteins of SARS-CoV-2 inhibit type I interferon signaling pathway

JY Li, CH Liao, Q Wang, YJ Tan, R Luo, Y Qiu, XY Ge - Virus research, 2020 - Elsevier
… It has been reported that some coronavirus proteins play an important … on SARS-CoV-2. In
this study, we screened the viral proteins of SARS-CoV-2 and found that the viral ORF6, ORF8

The ORF8 protein of SARS-CoV-2 mediates immune evasion through down-regulating MHC-Ι

Y Zhang, Y Chen, Y Li, F Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
… We report that SARS-CoV-2 utilizes its ORF8 protein as a unique … of the pathogenesis of
SARS-CoV-2 and will provide additional … and function of T cell antiviral immunity in COVID-19. …

[HTML][HTML] ORF8 and ORF3b antibodies are accurate serological markers of early and late SARS-CoV-2 infection

A Hachim, N Kavian, CA Cohen, AWH Chin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… As ORF3b and ORF8 showed the lowest homology to previous SARS-CoV among all the …
and ORF8 (Fig. 2k). Again, the ORF3b + ORF8 sum showed all patients with COVID-19 had a …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of SARS-CoV-2 ORF8, a rapidly evolving coronavirus protein implicated in immune evasion

TG Flower, CZ Buffalo, RM Hooy, M Allaire, X Ren… - Biorxiv, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of the SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 construct used in this study is shown top panel. The ORF8-specific …
Below is a cartoon representation of the monomer with the ORF8-specific region colored …