The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

PV Markov, M Ghafari, M Beer, K Lythgoe… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused millions of
deaths and substantial morbidity worldwide. Intense scientific effort to understand the …

Progress and challenges in targeting the SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

H Tan, Y Hu, P Jadhav, B Tan… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The approval of vaccines
and small-molecule antivirals is vital in combating the pandemic. The viral polymerase …

Multiple pathways for SARS-CoV-2 resistance to nirmatrelvir

S Iketani, H Mohri, B Culbertson, SJ Hong, Y Duan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Nirmatrelvir, an oral antiviral targeting the 3CL protease of SARS-CoV-2, has been
demonstrated to be clinically useful against COVID-19 (refs.,). However, because SARS …

[PDF][PDF] Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline, 13 January 2023

World Health Organization - 2023 - apps.who.int
As of December 2022, there have been over 642 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (10).
The pandemic has thus far claimed approximately 6.62 million lives (10). Vaccination is …

Mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase confer resistance to remdesivir by distinct mechanisms

LJ Stevens, AJ Pruijssers, HW Lee… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
The nucleoside analog remdesivir (RDV) is a Food and Drug Administration–approved
antiviral for treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

Accelerating antiviral drug discovery: lessons from COVID-19

A von Delft, MD Hall, AD Kwong, LA Purcell… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a wave of rapid and
collaborative drug discovery efforts took place in academia and industry, culminating in …

Mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of mutators during experimental evolution

M Amicone, V Borges, MJ Alves, J Isidro… - … medicine, and public …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background and objectives To understand how organisms evolve, it is fundamental to study
how mutations emerge and establish. Here, we estimated the rate of mutation accumulation …

Sequential intrahost evolution and onward transmission of SARS-CoV-2 variants

AS Gonzalez-Reiche, H Alshammary… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Persistent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections have
been reported in immune-compromised individuals and people undergoing immune …

The remarkable evolutionary plasticity of coronaviruses by mutation and recombination: insights for the COVID-19 pandemic and the future evolutionary paths of …

GD Amoutzias, M Nikolaidis, E Tryfonopoulou… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coronaviruses (CoVs) constitute a large and diverse subfamily of positive-sense single-
stranded RNA viruses. They are found in many mammals and birds and have great …

De novo emergence of a remdesivir resistance mutation during treatment of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in an immunocompromised patient: a case report

S Gandhi, J Klein, AJ Robertson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 remdesivir resistance mutations have been generated in vitro but have not
been reported in patients receiving treatment with the antiviral agent. We present a case of …