Epizootiological surveillance of porcine circoviruses in free-ranging wild boars in China
October 2023
Four species of porcine circoviruses (PCV1–4) have been reported to circulate in Chinese domestic pigs, while the epizootiology of these viruses in free-ranging wild boars in China remains unknown....
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Development of a novel virus-like particle-based vaccine for preventing tick-borne encephalitis virus infection
October 2023
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is an important tick-borne pathogen that poses as a serious public health concern. The coverage and immunogenicity of the currently available vaccines against TBEV...
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HBV precore G1896A mutation promotes growth of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by activating ERK/MAPK pathway
October 2023
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the leading causes of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The HBV genome is prone to mutate and several variants are closely related to the malignant...
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Isolation and characterization of spike S2-specific monoclonal antibodies with reactivity to pan-coronaviruses
Available online 29 October 2023
•Five broad-spectrum mAbs identified from COVID-19 convalescents and vaccinees possessed the ability to recognize spike S2 of pan-coronaviruses.•Five mAbs targeted distinct but conserved epitopes on...
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Equine ANP32 proteins support influenza A virus RNA polymerase activity
Available online 29 October 2023
Host ANP32 family proteins are crucial for maintaining the activity of influenza RNA polymerase and play an important role in the cross-species transmission of influenza viruses. To date, the molecular...
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Recent advances in understanding T cell activation and exhaustion during HBV infection
Available online 21 October 2023
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major public health concern globally, and T cell responses are widely believed to play a pivotal role in mediating HBV clearance. Accordingly, research...
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First detection of cutavirus DNA in stools of patients with rheumatic diseases in Guangzhou, China
Available online 14 October 2023
Cutavirus (CuV) is a novel protoparvovirus possibly associated with diarrhea and cutaneous T-cell lymphomas. Patients with rheumatic disease are immunosuppressed and may be more vulnerable to pathogenic...
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Ebola virus VP35 perturbs type I interferon signaling to facilitate viral replication
Available online 13 October 2023
As one of the deadliest viruses, Ebola virus (EBOV) causes lethal hemorrhagic fevers in humans and nonhuman primates. The suppression of innate immunity leads to robust systemic virus replication of...
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Myocardial injury and related mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 during the Omicron pandemic: new perspectives and insights
Available online 13 October 2023
Myocardial injury is one of the most common comorbidity in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients, and has poor prognosis. However, the incidence of myocardial injury in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection has...
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Reverse genetics systems for SARS-CoV-2: Development and applications
Available online 11 October 2023
The recent emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused serious harm to human health and struck a blow to global economic development. Research on SARS-CoV-2 has...
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Diversity analysis of tick-associated viruses in northeast China
Available online 11 October 2023
•This study identified eleven tick-borne viruses in Liaoning Province and Inner Mongolia.•Tacheng tick virus 2 is for the first time detected outside Xinjiang and in a novel tick species D. niveus.•The...
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LncRNA NKILA inhibits HBV replication by repressing NF-κB signalling activation
Available online 11 October 2023
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection results in liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HBx/nuclear factor (NF)-κB pathway plays a role in HBV replication. However, whether NF-κB-interacting...
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Direct infection of SARS-CoV-2 in human iPSC-derived 3D cardiac organoids recapitulates COVID-19 myocarditis
Available online 30 September 2023
•Establishment of 3D cardiac organoids composed of cardiomyocyte and endothelial layers.•SARS-CoV-2 infection causes multi-lineage cardiac injuries.•Cardiovascular health should be greatly concerned...
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Isolation and characterization of Akabane virus Ib substrain and its pathogenesis in sulking mice
Available online 29 September 2023
•Akabane virus sub-lineage genogroup Ib was identified and isolated in China for the first time.•The suckling mice showed clinical symptoms after intracerebrally infected with LK07 strain.•Viral...
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Structural insight into EV-A71 3A protein and its interaction with a peptide inhibitor
Available online 26 September 2023
•Our results disclosed a dihelical structure of Enterovirus A71 3A1–57 protein in apo form.•We depicted rigid helices and a unique flexible C-terminus for apo-form 3A1–57.•This study revealed a competitive...
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Allopregnanolone targets nucleoprotein as a novel influenza virus inhibitor
Available online 22 September 2023
Influenza A virus (IAV) poses a global public health concern and remains an imminent threat to human health. Emerging antiviral resistance to the currently approved influenza drugs emphasizes the urgent...
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Classical swine fever virus NS5A protein antagonizes innate immune response by inhibiting the NF-κB signaling
Available online 14 September 2023
The NS5A non-structural protein of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is a multifunctional protein involved in viral genomic replication, protein translation, assembly of infectious virus particles,...
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Ancient dormant virus remnant ERVW-1 drives ferroptosis via degradation of GPX4 and SLC3A2 in schizophrenia
Available online 9 September 2023
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are remnants of retroviral infections in human germline cells from millions of years ago. Among these, ERVW-1 (also known as HERV-W-ENV, ERVWE1, or ENVW) encodes...
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African swine fever virus S273R protein antagonizes type I interferon production by interfering with TBK1 and IRF3 interaction
Available online 1 September 2023
African swine fever (ASF) is originally reported in East Africa as an acute hemorrhagic fever. African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a giant and complex DNA virus with icosahedral structure and encodes...
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SARS-CoV-2 Nsp8 induces mitophagy by damaging mitochondria
August 2023
Autophagy plays an important role in the interaction between viruses and host cells. SARS-CoV-2 infection can disrupt the autophagy process in target cells. However, the precise molecular mechanism...
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Integrated interactome and transcriptome analysis reveals key host factors critical for SARS-CoV-2 infection
August 2023
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has seriously threatened global public health and caused huge economic losses....
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Elucidating cellular interactome of chikungunya virus identifies host dependency factors
August 2023
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging mosquito-transmitted RNA virus causing joint and muscle pain. To better understand how CHIKV rewires the host cell and usurps host cell functions, we generated...
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Altered hACE2 binding affinity and S1/S2 cleavage efficiency of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein mutants affect viral cell entry
August 2023
SARS-CoV-2 variants are constantly emerging, hampering public health measures in controlling the number of infections. While it is well established that mutations in spike proteins observed for the...
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SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell responses wane profoundly in convalescent individuals 10 months after primary infection
August 2023
A key question in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the duration of specific T cell responses against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) post primary...
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Host cell restriction factors of equine infectious anemia virus
August 2023
Equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) is a member of the lentivirus genus in the Retroviridae family and is considered an animal model for HIV/AIDS research. An attenuated EIAV vaccine, which was successfully...
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