Crystallographic structure of wild-type SARS-CoV-2 main protease acyl-enzyme intermediate with physiological C-terminal autoprocessing site

The SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) is one of two cysteine proteases essential for viral replication. Here, the authors determine the crystal structure of an Mpro acyl intermediate with its native C-terminal autocleavage sequence and the structure of a product bound active site mutant (C145A), which...

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Main Authors: Jaeyong Lee, Liam J. Worrall, Marija Vuckovic, Federico I. Rosell, Francesco Gentile, Anh-Tien Ton, Nathanael A. Caveney, Fuqiang Ban, Artem Cherkasov, Mark Paetzel, Natalie C. J. Strynadka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19662-4