Crystallographic structure of wild-type SARS-CoV-2 main protease acyl-enzyme intermediate with physiological C-terminal autoprocessing site.
Lee, J., Worrall, L.J., Vuckovic, M., Rosell, F.I., Gentile, F., Ton, A.T., Caveney, N.A., Ban, F., Cherkasov, A., Paetzel, M., Strynadka, N.C.J.(2020) Nat Commun 11: 5877-5877
- PubMed: 33208735 
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19662-4
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
7JOY, 7JP1, 7KHP - PubMed Abstract: 
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen that causes the disease COVID-19, produces replicase polyproteins 1a and 1ab that contain, respectively, 11 or 16 nonstructural proteins (nsp). Nsp5 is the main protease (M pro ) responsible for cleavage at eleven positions along these polyproteins, including at its own N- and C-terminal boundaries, representing essential processing events for subsequent viral assembly and maturation ...