SARS-CoV-2 Mpro responds to oxidation by forming disulfide and NOS/SONOS bonds

Abstract The main protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2 is critical for viral function and a key drug target. Mpro is only active when reduced; turnover ceases upon oxidation but is restored by re-reduction. This suggests the system has evolved to survive periods in an oxidative environment, but the mechani...

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Main Authors: Patrick Y. A. Reinke, Robin Schubert, Dominik Oberthür, Marina Galchenkova, Aida Rahmani Mashhour, Sebastian Günther, Anaïs Chretien, Adam Round, Brandon Charles Seychell, Brenna Norton-Baker, Chan Kim, Christina Schmidt, Faisal H. M. Koua, Alexandra Tolstikova, Wiebke Ewert, Gisel Esperanza Peña Murillo, Grant Mills, Henry Kirkwood, Hévila Brognaro, Huijong Han, Jayanath Koliyadu, Joachim Schulz, Johan Bielecki, Julia Lieske, Julia Maracke, Juraj Knoska, Kristina Lorenzen, Lea Brings, Marcin Sikorski, Marco Kloos, Mohammad Vakili, Patrik Vagovic, Philipp Middendorf, Raphael de Wijn, Richard Bean, Romain Letrun, Seonghyun Han, Sven Falke, Tian Geng, Tokushi Sato, Vasundara Srinivasan, Yoonhee Kim, Oleksandr M. Yefanov, Luca Gelisio, Tobias Beck, Andrew S. Doré, Adrian P. Mancuso, Christian Betzel, Saša Bajt, Lars Redecke, Henry N. Chapman, Alke Meents, Dušan Turk, Winfried Hinrichs, Thomas J. Lane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48109-3