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Preferential remdesivir triphosphate incorporation by SARS-CoV-2 polymerase is altered to ATP by the S759A mutation.
Communications biology - 13 Mar 2026
Gordon Calvin J, Oliva Mizar F, Lee Hery W, Goovaerts Quinten, De Wijngaert Brent, Götte Matthias, Das Kalyan
Abstract excerpt
Nucleoside analogs are successful in treating viral infections. dNTP analogs are primarily DNA chain terminators, while NTP analog remdesivir can inhibit RNA synthesis by delayed chain termination or when embedded in the template strand. Here, enzymatic assays, mass spectrometry, and cryo-EM structures demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) preferentially incorporates remdesivir...
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