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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2024

Sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 main protease 3CL

Evans C Wralstad, Ronald T Raines

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Reductive Methylation: An Alternative to Lysine → Arginine Mutagenesis.Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society · 2026
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  2. Sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 main protease 3CLProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Evans C WralstadDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2281-7594
Ronald T RainesDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7164-1719
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

RIBONUCLEASES IN CANCER THERAPYR01CA073808 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI RAINES, RONALD T · 1997 to 2024
$7.3M
Biochemical Strategy to Avert Microbial Drug ResistanceR21AI171663 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI RAINES, RONALD T · 2022 to 2023
$419k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA073808NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI171663NIH HHS R01 CA073808NIH HHS R21 AI171663
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alongside vaccines and antiviral therapeutics, diagnostic tools are a crucial aid in combating the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the etiological agent SARS-CoV-2. All common assays for infection rely on the detection of viral sub-components, including structural proteins of the virion or fragments of the viral genome. Selective pressure imposed by human intervention of COVID-19 can, however, induce viral mutations that decrease the sensitivity of diagnostic assays based on biomolecular structure, leading to an increase in false-negative results. In comparison, mutations are unlikely to alter the function of viral proteins, and viral machinery is under less selective pressure from vaccines and therapeutics. Accordingly, diagnostic assays that rely on biomolecular function can be more robust than ones that rely on biopolymer structure. Toward this end, we used a split intein to create a circular ribonuclease zymogen that is activated by the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, 3CL

Indexed as

Coronavirus 3C ProteasesCOVID-19VaccinesAntiviral AgentsEnzyme PrecursorsHumansPandemicsProtease InhibitorsRibonucleasesSARS-CoV-2Viral Nonstructural Proteins3C-like proteinase, SARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsCoronavirus 3C ProteasesEnzyme PrecursorsProtease InhibitorsRibonucleasesVaccinesViral Nonstructural Proteinscircular proteinCOVID-19function-based diagnosticproteaserapid antigen detection testingribonucleaseSARS-CoV-2zymogen

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PMID38501598
PMCPMC10949392
OpenAlexW4392956615

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