protease inhibitor specifically developed against the SARS-CoV-2 protease 3CLpro that has
been licensed for clinical use. To identify mutations that confer resistance to this protease
inhibitor, we engineered a chimeric vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) that expressed a
polyprotein composed of the VSV glycoprotein (G), the SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro, and the VSV
polymerase (L). Viral replication was thus dependent on the autocatalytic processing of this …