The results suggested that while 13 of the genes appear to have some role in enabling SARS-CoV-2, so that virus levels are lower when they are absent, the strongest enabler by far was CIART.

The role of this new gene, as well as several other SARS-CoV-2 genes, is not known yet. The authors wrote that they “find strong protein-coding signatures for ORFs 3a, 6, 7a, 7b, 8, 9b, ...

Researchers in the United States have shown that genes from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – can be ...

SARS-CoV-2 gene content and COVID-19 mutation impact by comparing 44 Sarbecovirus genomes. Nature Communications , 2021; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22905-7 Cite This Page : ...

Variants of human genes that encode proteins that are necessary for supporting various stages of the virus’s life cycle could confer natural resistance to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Identifying gene ...

The Study: Finding Genes Exclusively Altered in COVID-19. The current study aimed to carry out a meta-analysis of such data to understand how SARS-CoV-2 affects the cell at the molecular level ...

It's essential for organisms to use their genomes to make proteins, and the processes that do so - transcription and translation are even important for RNA viruses like SARS-CoV-2. When a virus ...

New research indicates that SARS-CoV-2 may be able to impact viral pathogenesis without entering host cells— extracellular binding of the spike protein to host ACE2 has the potential to alter ...

FROM: “SARS-CoV-2 disrupts host epigenetic regulation via histone mimicry” LEE ET AL. 2022 The ARKS genetic motif is well known as an important site for gene regulation within histone H3.

But it encodes for more than just the spike, the protein it uses to enter cells. Now researchers are learning more about how various SARS-CoV-2 genes can affect the severity of a COVID-19 infection.

They found that this gene also exhibits potent antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 and interestingly, it utilizes the same mechanism to block both SARS-CoV-2 and HIV. “We were stunned that SERINC5 ...