The role of lipid metabolism in COVID-19 virus infection and as a drug target

M Abu-Farha, TA Thanaraj, MG Qaddoumi… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The current Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 pandemic has infected over two million
people and resulted in the death of over one hundred thousand people at the time of writing …

RNA-targeted antiviral immunity: more than just RNA silencing

F Li, A Wang - Trends in Microbiology, 2019 - cell.com
RNA silencing is a fundamental, evolutionarily conserved mechanism that regulates gene
expression in eukaryotes. It also functions as a primary immune defense in microbes, such …

Characterization of the lipidomic profile of human coronavirus-infected cells: implications for lipid metabolism remodeling upon coronavirus replication

B Yan, H Chu, D Yang, KH Sze, PM Lai, S Yuan… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Lipids play numerous indispensable cellular functions and are involved in multiple steps in
the replication cycle of viruses. Infections by human-pathogenic coronaviruses result in …

The trans-omics landscape of COVID-19

P Wu, D Chen, W Ding, P Wu, H Hou, Y Bai… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global health emergency.
Various omics results have been reported for COVID-19, but the molecular hallmarks of …

Metabolic alterations upon SARS-CoV-2 infection and potential therapeutic targets against coronavirus infection

P Chen, M Wu, Y He, B Jiang, ML He - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
infection has become a global pandemic due to the high viral transmissibility and …

Stealing the keys to the kitchen: viral manipulation of the host cell metabolic network

CM Goodwin, S Xu, J Munger - Trends in microbiology, 2015 - cell.com
Host cells possess the metabolic assets required for viral infection. Recent studies indicate
that control of the host's metabolic resources is a core host–pathogen interaction. Viruses …

Host lipids in positive-strand RNA virus genome replication

Z Zhang, G He, NA Filipowicz, G Randall… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Membrane association is a hallmark of the genome replication of positive-strand RNA
viruses [(+) RNA viruses]. All well-studied (+) RNA viruses remodel host membranes and …

Building viral replication organelles: close encounters of the membrane types

PD Nagy, JRPM Strating, FJM van Kuppeveld - PLoS pathogens, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Positive-strand (+) RNA viruses are important and emerging pathogens of humans, animals,
and plants. Upon infection, they induce the formation of specialized membranous replication …

Lipid tales of viral replication and transmission

N Altan-Bonnet - Trends in cell biology, 2017 - cell.com
Positive-strand RNA viruses are the largest group of RNA viruses on Earth and cellular
membranes are critical for all aspects of their life cycle, from entry and replication to exit. In …

Critical role of phospholipase A2 group IID in age-related susceptibility to severe acute respiratory syndrome–CoV infection

R Vijay, X Hua, DK Meyerholz, Y Miki… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - rupress.org
Oxidative stress and chronic low-grade inflammation in the lungs are associated with aging
and may contribute to age-related immune dysfunction. To maintain lung homeostasis …