Structural basis for inhibition of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase from SARS-CoV-2 by remdesivir
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Abstract
Understanding the inner workings of the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may help us to disrupt it. Yin et al. focused on the viral polymerase essential for replicating viral RNA. They determined a structure of the polymerase bound to RNA and to the drug remdesivir. Remdesivir mimics an RNA nucleotide building block and is covalently linked to the replicating RNA, which blocks further synthesis of RNA. The structure provides a template for designing improved therapeutics against the viral polymerase.
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Image processing and 3D reconstruction of the template and Remdesivir bound complex: Contrast transfer function parameters for each micrograph were determined by Gctf v1.06(37) and particle selection were performed using auto-picking command in RELION-3.0-beta2(38), yielding 2,438,446 particle projections. Gctfsuggested: (GCTF, RRID:SCR_016500)This subset of particle projections was subjected to two rounds of Hetero Refinement and two selected subsets containing 580,293 projections were used to obtain a map with resolution of 2.9 Å in cryoSPARC. cryoSPARCsuggested: (cryoSPARC, RRID:SCR_01650…SciScore for 10.1101/2020.04.08.032763: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Image processing and 3D reconstruction of the template and Remdesivir bound complex: Contrast transfer function parameters for each micrograph were determined by Gctf v1.06(37) and particle selection were performed using auto-picking command in RELION-3.0-beta2(38), yielding 2,438,446 particle projections. Gctfsuggested: (GCTF, RRID:SCR_016500)This subset of particle projections was subjected to two rounds of Hetero Refinement and two selected subsets containing 580,293 projections were used to obtain a map with resolution of 2.9 Å in cryoSPARC. cryoSPARCsuggested: (cryoSPARC, RRID:SCR_016501)Local resolution was determined using the Bsoft package with half maps as input maps(40). Bsoftsuggested: (Bsoft, RRID:SCR_016503)The model statistics was validated using MolProbity. MolProbitysuggested: (MolProbity, RRID:SCR_014226)Structural figures were prepared in Chimera and PyMOL (https://pymol.org/2/). PyMOLsuggested: (PyMOL, RRID:SCR_000305)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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