Article
SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Lead to a Decrease in the Number of Tissue-Specific MicroRNA-Binding Regions in the Lung.
Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine - 1 Feb 2023
Zhiyanov A P, Shkurnikov M Yu
Abstract excerpt
RNA interference in vertebrates acts as an antiviral mechanism only in undifferentiated embryonic stem cells and is mediated by microRNAs. In somatic cells, host microRNAs also bind to the genomes of RNA viruses, regulating their translation and replication. It has been shown that viral (+)RNA can evolve under the influence of host cell miRNAs. In more than two years of the pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has...
Topics
- Humans
- Alveolar Epithelial Cells
- COVID-19
- Host Microbial Interactions
- Lung
- MicroRNAs
- Mutation
- SARS-CoV-2
