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| Title | OC43 clinical isolate spike proteins have distinct carbohydrate-binding properties. |
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| Journal, issue, pages | Nat Commun, Year 2026 |
| Publish date | May 16, 2026 |
Authors | Zaky Hassan / Min Jin / Ying Liu / Zhijie Li / Alan H M Wong / Marc Desforges / Adam Forman / Mark Nitz / Tarini Gunawardena / Theo J Moraes / Masahiro Narimatsu / Jeffrey L Wrana / Hai Yu / Xi Chen / James M Rini / ![]() |
| PubMed Abstract | The human coronavirus HCoV-OC43 (OC43) is the most widespread of the four common cold-causing seasonal coronaviruses, and tissue culture-adapted strains of it have been used for ~50 years. ...The human coronavirus HCoV-OC43 (OC43) is the most widespread of the four common cold-causing seasonal coronaviruses, and tissue culture-adapted strains of it have been used for ~50 years. Nevertheless, clinical isolates of OC43 differ from tissue culture-adapted OC43 in ways that call into question the value of the latter as a model. Among these are differences in their entry mechanisms and the activities of their hemagglutinin-esterases (HE). We now show that the spike proteins of OC43 clinical isolates differ from that of the tissue culture-adapted reference strain (OC43-Lab) in their carbohydrate-binding properties and ability to bind mucins, decoy receptors cleaved by the HE. We also show that, unlike HCoV-HKU1 (HKU1), they do not bind with high affinity and specificity the 9-O-acetylated α2-8-linked disialic acid moiety implicated in viral entry for OC43-Lab and HKU1. The spike proteins of the OC43 clinical isolates possess two inserts, not found in OC43-Lab, that flank the carbohydrate-binding site. Our structural analysis of a representative clinical isolate shows that insert-2 is a determinant of these specificity differences and that the carbohydrate-binding site undergoes conformational changes on carbohydrate binding. These structural features are shared by HKU1 and suggest common mechanisms for adaptation to the human sialoglycome. |
External links | Nat Commun / PubMed:42143065 |
| Methods | EM (single particle) |
| Resolution | 1.68 - 2.05 Å |
| Structure data | EMDB-70900, PDB-9ovk: EMDB-70901, PDB-9ovl: EMDB-70902, PDB-9ovm: EMDB-70903, PDB-9ovn: EMDB-70904, PDB-9ovo: |
| Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-NAG: ![]() PDB-1ar1: ![]() ChemComp-HOH: |
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Keywords | VIRAL PROTEIN / spike glycoprotein ectodomain / proline stablized |
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