The recent emergence of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which is causing an outbreak of unusual viral pneumonia in patients in Wuhan, a central city in China, is another warning of the risk of CoVs posed to public health. In this minireview, we provide a brief introduction of the general features of CoVs and describe diseases caused by different CoVs in humans and animals. This review will help understand the biology and potential risk of CoVs that exist in richness in wildlife such as bats.
The upcoming flu season in the Northern Hemisphere merging with the current COVID-19 pandemic raises a potentially severe threat to public health. Through experimental coinfection with influenza A virus (IAV) and either pseudotyped or live SARS-CoV-2 virus, we found that IAV preinfection significantly promoted the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 in a broad range of cell types. Remarkably, in vivo, increased SARS-CoV-2 viral load and more severe lung damage were observed in mice coinfected with IAV. Moreover, such enhancement of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity was not observed with several other respiratory viruses, likely due to a unique feature of IAV to elevate ACE2 expression. This study illustrates that IAV has a unique ability to aggravate SARS-CoV-2 infection, and thus, prevention of IAV infection is of great significance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19, caused by Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, is now in global pandemic. Coronaviruses are known to generate negative subgenomes (sgRNAs) through Transcription-Regulating Sequence (TRS)-dependent template switch, but the global dynamic landscapes of coronaviral subgenomes and regulatory rules remain unclear. Here, using NGS short-read and Nanopore long-read poly(A) RNA sequencing in two cell types at multiple time points post-infection of SARS-CoV-2, we identified hundreds of template switches and constructed the dynamic landscapes of SARS-CoV-2 subgenomes. Interestingly, template switch could occur in bidirectional manner, with diverse SARS-CoV-2 subgenomes generated from successive template switching events. The majority of template switches result from RNA-RNA interactions, including seed and compensatory modes, with terminal pairing status as a key determinant. Moreover, two TRS-independent template switch modes are also responsible for subgenome biogenesis. Collectively, our findings reveal the subgenome landscape of SARS-CoV-2 and its regulatory features, providing a molecular basis for understanding subgenome biogenesis and developing novel anti-viral strategies.
• Although conventional CT is useful for diagnosis of SRMs, it has limitations. • Machine-learning based CT texture analysis facilitate differentiation of small AMLwvf from RCC. • The highest accuracy of SVM-RFE+SMOTE classifier reached 93.9 %. • Texture analysis combined with machine-learning methods might spare unnecessary surgery for AMLwvf.
Abstract. A time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS)
utilizing the Filter Inlet for Gas and Aerosol (FIGAERO) was deployed at a
regional site 40 km north-west of Beijing and successfully identified and
measured 17 sulfur-containing organics (SCOs are organo/nitrooxy organosulfates and sulfonates) with biogenic and anthropogenic precursors. The SCOs
were quantified using laboratory-synthesized standards of lactic acid sulfate
and nitrophenol organosulfate (NP OS). The variation in field observations
was confirmed by comparison to offline measurement techniques (orbitrap and
high-performance liquid chromatography, HPLC) using daily averages. The mean
total (of the 17 identified by CIMS) SCO particle mass concentration was
210 ± 110 ng m−3 and had a maximum of 540 ng m−3,
although it contributed to only 2 ± 1 % of the organic aerosol (OA).
The CIMS identified a persistent gas-phase presence of SCOs in the ambient
air, which was further supported by separate vapour-pressure measurements of
NP OS by a Knudsen Effusion Mass Spectrometer (KEMS). An increase in
relative humidity (RH) promoted partitioning of SCO to the particle phase,
whereas higher temperatures favoured higher gas-phase concentrations. Biogenic emissions contributed to only 19 % of total SCOs measured in this
study. Here, C10H16NSO7, a monoterpene-derived SCO,
represented the highest fraction (10 %) followed by an isoprene-derived
SCO. The anthropogenic SCOs with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and
aromatic precursors dominated the SCO mass loading (51 %) with
C11H11SO7, derived from methyl naphthalene oxidation,
contributing to 40 ng m−3 and 0.3 % of the OA mass. Anthropogenic-related SCOs correlated well with benzene, although their abundance depended
highly on the photochemical age of the air mass, tracked using the ratio
between pinonic acid and its oxidation product, acting as a qualitative
photochemical clock. In addition to typical anthropogenic and biogenic
precursors the biomass-burning precursor nitrophenol (NP) provided a
significant level of NP OS. It must be noted that the contribution analysis
here is only representative of the detected SCOs. There are likely to
be many more SCOs present which the CIMS has not identified. Gas- and particle-phase measurements of glycolic acid suggest that
partitioning towards the particle phase promotes glycolic acid sulfate
production, contrary to the current formation mechanism suggested in the
literature. Furthermore, the HSO4⋅H2SO4- cluster measured by the
CIMS was utilized as a qualitative marker for acidity and indicates that the
production of total SCOs is efficient in highly acidic aerosols with high
SO42- and organic content. This dependency becomes more complex
when observing individual SCOs due to variability of specific VOC precursors.
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