The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) initiates infection by engaging its host receptor dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4), which activates the viral spike (S) glycoprotein. However, how receptor binding is structurally coupled to membrane fusion has remained unclear. Here, using cryo–electron microsco...
It is suggested that enteric α-defensins help alleviate, as host protective factors, Covid-19 symptoms in the intestine despite higher ACE2 expression in the gut than in the lungs, and that Crp5 may be developed as a broad-spectrum antiviral for the treatment of coronavirus infection irrespective of virus type and vari...
Functional analyses demonstrate that C17orf75 is indispensable for the proper intracellular localization of the acidic-cluster-containing cargo proteins CI-MPR, KIAA0319L, and VAMP4 and establish C17orf75 as an integral component of the WFC complex in endosome-to-TGN trafficking.