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ReviewMethods (San Diego, Calif.)2021

Structural and molecular perspectives of SARS-CoV-2.

Swatantra Kumar, Shailendra K Saxena

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In one paragraph

Review in Methods (San Diego, Calif.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Modeling COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics: A Bibliometric Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  7. Omicron - The new SARS-CoV-2 challenge?Reviews in medical virology · 2022
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  9. Evolving trend change during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2022
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  11. Antcins fromPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Swatantra KumarCentre for Advanced Research (CFAR), Faculty of Medicine, King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow 226003, India.
Shailendra K SaxenaCentre for Advanced Research (CFAR), Faculty of Medicine, King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow 226003, India. Electronic address: shailen@kgmcindia.edu.
King George's Medical University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent emergence of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transpired into pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). SARS-CoV-2 has been rapidly transmitted across the globe within a short period of time, with more than 106 million cases and 2.3 million deaths. The continuous rise in worldwide cases of COVID-19, transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 including re-infections and enormous case-fatality rates emphasizes the urgent need of potential preventive and therapeutic measures. The development of effective therapeutic and preventive measures relies on understanding the molecular and cellular mechanism of replication exhibited by SARS-CoV-2. The structure of SARS-CoV-2 is ranging from 90-120 nm that comprises surface viral proteins including spike, envelope, membrane which are attached in host lipid bilayer containing the helical nucleocapsid comprising viral RNA. Spike (S) glycoprotein initiates the attachment of SARS-CoV-2 with a widely expressed cellular receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), and subsequent S glycoprotein priming via serine protease TMPRSS2. Prominently, comprehensive analysis of structural insights into the crucial SARS-CoV-2 proteins may lead us to design effective therapeutics molecules. The present article, emphasizes the molecular and structural perspective of SARS-CoV-2 including mechanistic insights in its replication.

Indexed as

AnimalsBinding SitesCOVID-19HumansProtein Structure, SecondarySARS-CoV-2Spike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusVirus InternalizationVirus ReplicationSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2ACE2COVID-19Mpronsp10/nsp16 2′-O-methylaseNucleocapsidSARS-CoV-2Spike-glycoprotein

Identifiers

PMID33737214
PMCPMC7959701
OpenAlexW3138672464

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Registered trials

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