RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Crystal structure of Nsp15 endoribonuclease NendoU from SARS-CoV-2
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2020.03.02.968388
DO 10.1101/2020.03.02.968388
A1 Youngchang Kim
A1 Robert Jedrzejczak
A1 Natalia I. Maltseva
A1 Michael Endres
A1 Adam Godzik
A1 Karolina Michalska
A1 Andrzej Joachimiak
YR 2020
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/03/03/2020.03.02.968388.abstract
AB Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 is rapidly spreading around the world. There is no existing vaccine or proven drug to prevent infections and stop virus proliferation. Although this virus is similar to human and animal SARS- and MERS-CoVs the detailed information about SARS-CoV-2 proteins structures and functions is urgently needed to rapidly develop effective vaccines, antibodies and antivirals. We applied high-throughput protein production and structure determination pipeline at the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases to produce SARS-CoV-2 proteins and structures. Here we report the high-resolution crystal structure of endoribonuclease Nsp15/NendoU from SARS-CoV-2 – a virus causing current world-wide epidemics. We compare this structure with previously reported models of Nsp15 from SARS and MERS coronaviruses.