Vineet D. Menachery

The paper shows how SARS-CoV-2 variants, particularly Omicron, evolved proteolytic controls at the Spike furin cleavage site to enhance transmission while reducing lower respiratory tract pathogenicity.

This study evaluates antibody responses after a KP.2 spike mRNA vaccine dose, showing durable and broadly cross-reactive immunity against multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants, but reduced neutralizing activity against some emerging subvariants.

This study shows that disrupting both NSP3 and nucleocapsid SG antagonism reduces SARS-CoV-2 replication and disease, suggesting stress granule activation as a therapeutic target.

This study identifies key residues in SARS-CoV-2 NSP3 that are critical for FXR1 binding and stress granule disruption, showing their role in viral replication and pathogenesis.

This study shows SARS-CoV-2 NSP15 (EndoU) regulates RNA recombination and viral fitness, with its loss reducing replication but increasing inflammation and defective genomes.

This study shows that the furin cleavage site (FCS) is essential for SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis but not for transmission, as a mutant lacking FCS was transmissible in hamsters but caused less severe disease.

This study investigates how IL-4 and TGF-β regulate inflammation and immune cell infiltration in mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 infection, finding that neutralizing these cytokines alters disease pathology.

The paper identifies a mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein that enhances viral infection by promoting dimer formation and altering virion structure.

This study identifies TRIM7 as an E3-ubiquitin ligase that ubiquitinates SARS-CoV-2 M protein to inhibit apoptosis and viral replication.

The paper shows that eosinophils protect against SARS-CoV-2 in vaccinated mice during breakthrough infections by reducing viral burden and limiting dissemination.

Tiled-ClickSeq enables complete SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing with detection of RNA recombination and minority variants in a single assay.