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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Point mutations at specific sites of the nsp12-nsp8 interface dramatically affect the RNA polymerization activity of SARS-CoV-2.

Cristina Ferrer-Orta, Sergi Vázquez-Monteagudo, Diego S Ferrero, Brenda Martínez-González, Celia Perales, Esteban Domingo, Nuria Verdaguer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. SARS-CoV-2 mutant spectrum complexity is an epidemiologically evolvable trait.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  2. Therapeutic applications of interface-mimicking peptides for targeting the SARS-CoV-2 NSP12-NSP8 RdRp complex.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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  4. Incipient functional SARS-CoV-2 diversification identified through neural network haplotype maps.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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Cristina Ferrer-Orta *Structural and Molecular Biology Department, Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona 08028, Spain.
Sergi Vázquez-Monteagudo *Structural and Molecular Biology Department, Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona 08028, Spain.
Diego S FerreroStructural and Molecular Biology Department, Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona 08028, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6848-9939
Brenda Martínez-GonzálezDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 28049, Spain.
Celia PeralesDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 28049, Spain.
Esteban DomingoMicrobes in Health and Welfare Program, Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 28049, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0573-1676
Nuria VerdaguerStructural and Molecular Biology Department, Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona 08028, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8826-7129

Funding

Fundació La Marato TV3 202136-30Fundació La Marato TV3 202136-31MEC | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) CSIC-COV19-014MEC | Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) FI19/00119MEC | Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) PI21/00139Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN) 202220I116Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN) PID2020-113888RB-I00Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN) PID2020-117976 GB-I00PLATESA2 from Comunidad de Madrid/FEDER S2018/BAA-4370
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Abstract

In a recent characterization of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variability present in 30 diagnostic samples from patients of the first COVID-19 pandemic wave, 41 amino acid substitutions were documented in the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) nsp12. Eight substitutions were selected in this work to determine whether they had an impact on the RdRp activity of the SARS-CoV-2 nsp12-nsp8-nsp7 replication complex. Three of these substitutions were found around the polymerase central cavity, in the template entry channel (D499G and M668V), and within the motif B (V560A), and they showed polymerization rates similar to the wild type RdRp. The remaining five mutations (P323L, L372F, L372P, V373A, and L527H) were placed near the nsp12-nsp8

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Point MutationRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Viral Nonstructural ProteinsAmino Acid SubstitutionCoronavirus RNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseCOVID-19HumansModels, MolecularPolymerizationRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseCoronavirus RNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseNS8 protein, SARS-CoV-2NSP12 protein, SARS-CoV-2RNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralViral Nonstructural Proteinsnsp12–nsp8–nsp7 complexprimer extensionprotein–protein interactionsRNA-dependent RNA polymeraseRNA synthesis

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