Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered how the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID ... More information: Siwen Long et al, SARS-CoV-2 N protein recruits G3BP to double membrane ...

SARS-CoV-2 is related to SARS-CoV, the virus that ... encoded proteins pp1ab, pp1a, E, M, accessory protein 7a, and N genes vary considerably between SARS-CoV/CoV-2 genomes. Other major ...

The human body is naturally equipped with defenses to fight off viral infections. For a virus to successfully infect it, it ...

Research shows that the SARS-CoV-2 virus propagates ... domain. The N protein also has a serine/arginine-rich (SR) motif, which helps with phase separation in other ribonucleoproteins, and a ...

New computational simulations of the behavior of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins prior to fusion with human cell receptors show that SARS-CoV-2, the virus ... other domains, such as the N ...

5 variants have the same genetic sequence for the spike protein ... other accessory genes are what has allowed variants like BA.5 to outcompete the earlier versions of the virus.” The SARS-CoV-2 ...

Although other viruses also ... uncovered another such SARS-CoV-2 strategy: mimicry of human histone proteins. Published in Nature, Lee et al. show that one of the virus’ accessory proteins ...

In January, scientists deciphered a piece of very bad news: the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ... The first sequence of RNA letters reads: The first viral protein created inside the ...

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 ... named for the position of its first amino acid in the spike protein sequence, was especially good at forming amyloids in ...