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Mechanisms of Coronavirus Genome Stability As Potential Targets for Antiviral Drugs. / Yuyukina, S. K.; Zharkov, D. O.
In: Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 92, No. 4, 08.2022, p. 470-478.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechanisms of Coronavirus Genome Stability As Potential Targets for Antiviral Drugs
AU - Yuyukina, S. K.
AU - Zharkov, D. O.
N1 - Funding Information: This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 20-04-60433. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has made it necessary to create antivirals active against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. One of the widely used strategies to fight off viral infections is the use of modified nucleoside analogues that inhibit viral replication by incorporating DNA or RNA into the growing chain, thus stopping its synthesis. The difficulty of using this method of treatment in the case of SARS-CoV-2 is that coronaviruses have an effective mechanism for maintaining genome stability. Its central element is the nsp14 protein, which is characterized by exonuclease activity, due to which incorrectly included and noncanonical nucleotides are removed from the 3' end of the growing RNA chain. Inhibitors of nsp14 exonuclease and nucleoside analogues resistant to its action are viewed as potential targets for anticoronavirus therapy.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has made it necessary to create antivirals active against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. One of the widely used strategies to fight off viral infections is the use of modified nucleoside analogues that inhibit viral replication by incorporating DNA or RNA into the growing chain, thus stopping its synthesis. The difficulty of using this method of treatment in the case of SARS-CoV-2 is that coronaviruses have an effective mechanism for maintaining genome stability. Its central element is the nsp14 protein, which is characterized by exonuclease activity, due to which incorrectly included and noncanonical nucleotides are removed from the 3' end of the growing RNA chain. Inhibitors of nsp14 exonuclease and nucleoside analogues resistant to its action are viewed as potential targets for anticoronavirus therapy.
KW - corrective exonuclease
KW - COVID-19
KW - genome stability
KW - nucleoside inhibitors
KW - replication
KW - RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
KW - SARS-CoV-2
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U2 - 10.1134/S1019331622040256
DO - 10.1134/S1019331622040256
M3 - Article
C2 - 36091852
AN - SCOPUS:85138033857
VL - 92
SP - 470
EP - 478
JO - Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
JF - Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
SN - 1019-3316
IS - 4
ER -
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