基于密码子使用模式的冠状病毒亲缘关系分析

重症急性呼吸综合症(severe acute respiratorysyndrome,SARS),临床表现为非典型肺炎.由于SARS具有很高的传染性和一种新型的冠状病毒(SARS-CoV)被认为是引起SARS的病原体.SARS冠状病毒(SARS-CoV)属于巢状病毒目(OrderN idovirales),冠状病毒科(Fam ily Coronaviri-dae),冠状病     

MCTD、SS和RA患者血清中SARS-CoV抗体阳性原因分析

为探讨严重急性呼吸综合征(SARS)冠状病毒(SARS-CoV)抗体在SARS病原学诊断中的特异性及其在干燥综合征(SS)、混合结缔组织病(MCTD)和类风湿性关节炎(RA)患者血清中的假阳性问题，应用酶联免疫吸附试验(ELISA)和间接免疫荧光法(IFA)检测了111例正常对照和46例SS、MCTD和RA患者血清中SARS-CoV抗体的阳性率。结果在正常对照和SS、MCTD和RA患者中，应用ELISA测定SARS-CoV抗体的阳性率分别为3．6％(4／111)和19．6％(9／46)，经IFA检测，上述SARS-CoV抗体阳性者均为阴性。提示IFA诊断SARS的特异性为100％，ELISA诊断SARS存在一定的假阳性。     

Design and application of 60mer oligonucleotide microarray in SARS coronavirus detection

In April 2003, a novel coronavirus[1,2] which was associated with cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syn-drome (SARS) was first isolated and sequenced in Canada. The genome of SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is 29727[3] nucleotides in length and has 11 known open reading frames (ORFs). Although the genome organiza-tion of this virus is similar to that of other coronaviruses, phylogenetic analyses and sequence alignment show that SARS-CoV is not closely related to any of the previously ch…     

冠状病毒主蛋白酶及其化学抑制剂研究进展

一个新的冠状病毒已经被鉴定为急性呼吸道综合症(SARS)的病原体,控制该病毒复制复合体活性的主蛋白酶(Mpro或3CLpro)将很可能成为开发针对SARS特效治疗药物的靶位点.综述了人冠状病毒株229E(HCoV 229E)和一种在猪体内引发传染性胃肠炎的病毒(TGEV)的Mpro的晶体结构以及以此为基础构建的SARS冠状病毒(SARS-CoV)同源蛋白酶的空间结构模型.通过对这些同源蛋白酶的结构及其与已知的蛋白酶化学抑制剂的结合特征进行分析后发现Mpro的底物结合位点具有惊人的保守性,这种保守性也被重组SARS-CoV Mpro能介导的TGEV Mpro的底物剪切实验所进一步证实.分子模型表明已有的鼻病毒3Cpro抑制剂经过改进后或许能用于SARS的治疗.     

Phylogeny of SARS-CoV as inferred from complete genome comparison

SARS-CoV, as the pathogeny of severe acute respi-ratory syndrome (SARS), seems to be the first coronavirus that is lethal to humans. Coronavirus (family Coronaviri-dae, genus Coronavirus) is an enveloped, single-stranded plus sense RNA virus whose genome has approximately 30 kb size. Whereas coronaviruses may cause severe dis-ease in animals, coronaviruses human strains only cause mild diseases until SARS-CoV was discovered. To date, SARS-CoV genomes from 12 isolates have been comp…     

Infection of SARS-CoV on juvenile and adult Brandt’s vole Microtus brandtii

We studied the infectious effect of SARS-CoV virus on juvenile and adult Brandt‘s Vole (Microtus brandtii) by nasal cavity spraying method (CCIDso is 10^5.7). SARS virus caused serious deaths in adults. The death adults demonstrated hemorrhage from mouth, nasal cavity and intestine, hemorrhageious interstitial pneumonia and gore in liver, spleen and kidney. The survival adults demonstrated local hemorrhagic spot in lung and emphysema, but the other organs showed no pathological abnormality. SARS virus caused no deaths in juveniles, but locomotion of infected juveniles became slower. In the early stage, there was local pneumonia in lung and SARS viruses were isolated from the pathological tissue. Only one control juvenile lived and the infected juvenile showed local pneumonia in lung. The results demonstrated that SARS-CoV infected Brandt‘s vole seriously and adults were more susceptive to SARS-CoV than juveniles. The Brandt‘s vole may be a potential animal model for SARS research.     

Phylogeny of SARS-CoV as inferred from complete genome comparison

SARS-CoV, as the pathogeny of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), is a mystery that the origin of the virus is still unknown even a few isolates of the virus were completely sequenced. To explore the genesis of SARS-CoV,the FDOD method previously developed by us was applied to comparing complete genomes from 12 SARS-CoV isolates to those from 12 previously identified coronaviruses and an unrooted phyiogenetic tree was constructed. Our results show that all SARS-CoV isolates were clustered into a clique and previously identified coronaviruses formed the other clique. Meanwhile, the three groups of coronaviruses depart from each other clearly in our tree that is consistent with the results of prevenient papers. Differently, from the topology of the phylogenetic tree we found that SARS-CoV is more close to group 1 within genus coronavirus. The topology map also shows that the 12 SARS-CoV isolates may be divided into two groups determined by the association with the SARS-CoV from the Hotel M in Hong Kong that may give some information about the infectious relationship of the SARS.     

Infection of SARS-CoV on juvenile and adult Brandt’s vole Microtus brandtii

In the spring of 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) suddenly broke out in many countries of the world, especially China. About 8400 probable cases of SARS were identified worldwide and about 800 patients died. SARS not only caused severe panic all over the world, but also brought huge losses to global economy. SARS is recognized as a new kind of respiratory disease, caused by a novel coranovirus, SARS-CoV. It is characterized by pneumonic infection and pathological change.…     

Bioinformatical study on the proteomics and evolution of SARS-CoV

A novel coronavirus has been identified as the causative agent of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). For all the SARS-CoV associated proteins derivated from the SARS-CoV genome, the physiochemical properties such as the molecular weight, isoelectric point and extinction coefficient of each protein were calculated. The transmembrane segments and subeellular localization (SubLoeation) prediction and conserved protein motifs search against database were employed to analyze the function of SARS-CoV proteins. Also, the homology protein sequence alignment and evolutionary distance matrix calculation between SARS-CoV associated proteins and the corresponding proteins of other coronaviruses were employed to identify the classification and phylogenetic relationship between SARS-CoV and other coronaviruses. The results showed that SARS-CoV is a novel coronavirus which is different from any of the three previously known groups of coronviruses, but it is closer to BoCoV and MHV than to other coronaviruses. This study is in aid of experimental determination of SARS-CoV proteomics and the development of antiviral vaccine.     

Protein Subcellular Localization Prediction and Genomic Polymorphism Analysis of the SARS Coronavirus

Introduction In March 2003, a novel coronavirus (CoV) was dis-covered in association with the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)[1-3]. The complete genome sequence of several SARS-CoV isolates was soon determined and characterized[4,5]. Comparison of variant SARS-CoV genome sequences has identified certain genetic signatures that can be used to trace sources of infection[6]. Vaccines are now being devel-oped and molecular modeling has suggested that modi-fied rhinovir…     

SARS的研究进展

2003年3月,发现SARS病原是一种从未在人类或动物中发现过的新的冠状病毒.其基因组结构与其他的冠状病毒相似,由29727核苷酸组成,有11个开放阅读框.通过多基因分析序列比较说明,SARS冠状病毒与已知的冠状病毒无关.针对SARS冠状病毒的各种特征及研究进展进行了综述.     

SARS-CoVS基因表达及纯化

严重急性呼吸道综合症是由一种新的冠状病毒SARS-CoY引起的．作者通过PCR扩增得到了S蛋白的6个编码片段，并利用表达载体pET28a( )在E．coli BL21中进行了原核表达．通过亲和层析纯化了包含大部分ACE2结合区域的S蛋白片段(S4)．ELISA分析结果表明S4与SARS病人恢复期血清具有良好的反应能力．     

Genome sequence variation analysis of two SARS coronavirus isolates after passage in Vero cell culture

SARS coronavirus is an RNA virus whose replication is error-prone, which provides possibility for escape of host defenses, and even leads to evolution of new viral strains during the passage or the transmission. Lots of variations have been detected among different SARS-CoV strains. And a study on these variations is helpful for development of efficient vaccine. Moreover, the test of nucleic acid characterization and genetic stability of SARS-CoV is important in the research of inactivated vaccine. The whole genome sequences of two SARS coronavirus strains after passage in Vero cell culture were determined and were compared with those of early passages, respectively. Results showed that both SAPS coronavirus strains have high genetic stability, although nearly 10 generations were passed. Four nucleotide variations were observed between the second passage and the llth passage of Sinol strain for identification of SARS inactivated vaccine. Moreover, only one nucleotide was different between the third passage and the 10th passage of Sino3 strain for SARS inactivated vaccine. Therefore, this study suggested it was possible to develop inactivated vaccine against SARS-CoV in the future.     

A Coordination Model of Gene Sequences for SARS-CoV and its Receptor

IntroductionFrom the emergence of SARS CoV, manystudies havebeen done on its biological medicine aspects, such aspathogeny characteristics, mechanisms of causing disease,clinic diagnosis and treatment, bacterin development andthe spreading rules. At the level of molecule biology,studies have been done on its genome sequences characteristics, structures and functions of the translatedproteins, and the evolution relationships in sequences[1 5].The caus…     

Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus

Spike (S) proteins of coronaviruses, including the coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), associate with cellular receptors to mediate infection of their target cells. Here we identify a metallopeptidase, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), isolated from SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-permissive Vero E6 cells, that efficiently binds the S1 domain of the SARS-CoV S protein. We found that a soluble form of ACE2, but not of the related enzyme ACE1, blocked association of the S1 domain with Vero E6 cells. 293T cells transfected with ACE2, but not those transfected with human immunodeficiency virus-1 receptors, formed multinucleated syncytia with cells expressing S protein. Furthermore, SARS-CoV replicated efficiently on ACE2-transfected but not mock-transfected 293T cells. Finally, anti-ACE2 but not anti-ACE1 antibody blocked viral replication on Vero E6 cells. Together our data indicate that ACE2 is a functional receptor for SARS-CoV.