The outbreak of coronavirus disease(COVID-19)caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus continually lead to worldwide human infections and deaths.Currently,there is no specific viral protein-targeted therapeutics.Viral nucleocapsid p...The outbreak of coronavirus disease(COVID-19)caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus continually lead to worldwide human infections and deaths.Currently,there is no specific viral protein-targeted therapeutics.Viral nucleocapsid protein is a potential antiviral drug target,serving multiple critical functions during the viral life cycle.However,the structural information of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein remains unclear.Herein,we have determined the 2.7 A crystal structure of the N-terminal RNA binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein.Although the overall structure is similar as other reported coronavirus nucleocapsid protein N-terminal domain,the surface electrostatic potential characteristics between them are distinct.Further comparison with mild virus type HCoV-OC43 equivalent domain demonstrates a unique potential RNA binding pocket alongside theβ-sheet core.Complemented by in vitro binding studies,our data provide several atomic resolution features of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein N-terminal domain,guiding the design of novel antiviral agents specific targeting to SARS-CoV-2.展开更多
A novel coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)emerged around December 2019 in Wuhan,China and has spread rapidly worldwide(Lu et al.,2020).Until March 27,2020,the Chinese health authorities had reported 82082 confirmed CO...A novel coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)emerged around December 2019 in Wuhan,China and has spread rapidly worldwide(Lu et al.,2020).Until March 27,2020,the Chinese health authorities had reported 82082 confirmed COVID-19 cases in China with 3298 deaths and 381443 confirmed cases with 20787 deaths outside China.The World Health Organization(WHO)named the virus SARS-CoV-2,which belongs to a distinct clade from the human severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV(SARS-CoV)and Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV(MERSCoV)(Zhu et al.,2020).展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(31770801)Special Fund for Scientific and Technological Innovation Strategy of Guangdong Province of China(2018B030306029 and 2017A030313145)+2 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(81430041,81620108017)National Key Basic Research Program,China(SQ2018YFC090075)National Natural Science Foundation of China(81870019)
文摘The outbreak of coronavirus disease(COVID-19)caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus continually lead to worldwide human infections and deaths.Currently,there is no specific viral protein-targeted therapeutics.Viral nucleocapsid protein is a potential antiviral drug target,serving multiple critical functions during the viral life cycle.However,the structural information of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein remains unclear.Herein,we have determined the 2.7 A crystal structure of the N-terminal RNA binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein.Although the overall structure is similar as other reported coronavirus nucleocapsid protein N-terminal domain,the surface electrostatic potential characteristics between them are distinct.Further comparison with mild virus type HCoV-OC43 equivalent domain demonstrates a unique potential RNA binding pocket alongside theβ-sheet core.Complemented by in vitro binding studies,our data provide several atomic resolution features of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein N-terminal domain,guiding the design of novel antiviral agents specific targeting to SARS-CoV-2.
基金This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2018A030313652)the National Mega Project on Major Infectious Disease Prevention(2017ZX10103011).
文摘A novel coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)emerged around December 2019 in Wuhan,China and has spread rapidly worldwide(Lu et al.,2020).Until March 27,2020,the Chinese health authorities had reported 82082 confirmed COVID-19 cases in China with 3298 deaths and 381443 confirmed cases with 20787 deaths outside China.The World Health Organization(WHO)named the virus SARS-CoV-2,which belongs to a distinct clade from the human severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV(SARS-CoV)and Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV(MERSCoV)(Zhu et al.,2020).
