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SCIENCE SIGNALING
Volume 15, Issue 757, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.abm0808
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- Pershing Square Foundation
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) PReemptive Expression of Protective Alleles and Response Elements (PREPARE) program [HR00111920008]
- NIAID, NIH [UC6-AI058607]
- NHLBI/NIH [R01HL146557, R01HL153375]
- [RO1 GM51405-28]
- [T32-CA009111]
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This study reveals potential therapeutic targets for coronavirus-related diseases by investigating the phosphorylation mechanism of the viral N protein regulated by mammalian protein kinase families. Inhibitors of these protein kinases may have therapeutic potential against COVID-19 and other coronavirus-mediated diseases.
Multiple coronaviruses have emerged independently in the past 20 years that cause lethal human diseases. Al-though vaccine development targeting these viruses has been accelerated substantially, there remain patients requiring treatment who cannot be vaccinated or who experience breakthrough infections. Understanding the common host factors necessary for the life cycles of coronaviruses may reveal conserved therapeutic targets. Here, we used the known substrate specificities of mammalian protein kinases to deconvolute the sequence of phosphorylation events mediated by three host protein kinase families (SRPK, GSK-3, and CK1) that coordinately phosphorylate a cluster of serine and threonine residues in the viral N protein, which is required for viral rep-lication. We also showed that loss or inhibition of SRPK1/2, which we propose initiates the N protein phosphor-ylation cascade, compromised the viral replication cycle. Because these phosphorylation sites are highly conserved across coronaviruses, inhibitors of these protein kinases not only may have therapeutic potential against COVID-19 but also may be broadly useful against coronavirus-mediated diseases.
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