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Anti-Frameshifting Ligand Active against SARS Coronavirus-2 Is Resistant to Natural Mutations of the Frameshift-Stimulatory Pseudoknot.
Journal of molecular biology - 2 Oct 2020
Neupane Krishna, Munshi Sneha, Zhao Meng, Ritchie Dustin B, Ileperuma Sandaru M, Woodside Michael T
Abstract excerpt
SARS-CoV-2 uses -1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting (-1 PRF) to control expression of key viral proteins. Because modulating -1 PRF can attenuate the virus, ligands binding to the RNA pseudoknot that stimulates -1 PRF may have therapeutic potential. Mutations in the pseudoknot have occurred during the pandemic, but how they affect -1 PRF efficiency and ligand activity is unknown. Studying a panel of six...
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