Result: These changes included, but were not limited to, D614G in Spike; R203K and G204K in N; and an out-of-frame deletion of five nucleotides in ORF7A, leading to its premature truncation.
RT-LAMP assay for rapid detection of the R203M mutation in SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant.
Generation of a novel SARS-CoV-2 sub-genomic RNA due to the R203K/G204R variant in nucleocapsid: homologous recombination has potential to change SARS-CoV-2 at both protein and RNA level.
Abstract: In this study, we examined the adjacent amino acid polymorphisms in the nucleocapsid (R203K/G204R) of SARS-CoV-2 that arose on the background of the spike D614G change and describe how strains harboring these changes became dominant circulating strains globally.
Introduction: Here we examined a variant of SARS-CoV-2 that emerged within the subset of sequences harboring the D614G variant and contains 3 adjacent nucleotide changes spanning 2 residues of the nucleocapsid protein (R203K/G204R; B.1.1 lineage), which has resulted in a novel sub-genomic RNA transcript.
Method: The Dot-bracket folding notations were obtained for each of the PMID: 34445204
2021
International journal of molecular sciences
Result: Although these mutations are located on the linker region (LKR) of the nucleocapsid phosphoprotein, which spans from position 175-254aa, only R203K belongs to the LKR's crucial Ser/Arg (SR)-rich motif that contains putative phosphorylation sites.
Result: Five well-characterized missense mutations, D614G (23403A>G)-S gene, Q57H (25563G>T)-ORF3a gene, P323L (14408C>T):ORF1ab/RdRP gene, R203K (28881G>A):N gene, and
Emergence and spread of the potential variant of interest (VOI) B.1.1.519 of SARS-CoV-2 predominantly present in Mexico.
Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 mutations reveals regional-specificity and similar trends of N501 and high-frequency mutation N501Y in different levels of control measures.
Method: For instance, if 1 week presented 30% of genomes with the mutation R203K, and the number of cases on Monday of that week was 100.
Method: In the case of MF mutation R203K, R203, and N501, we multiply the relative frequencies of the genomes with the state of interest (R203K, R203 or N501) in a determined week by the number of cases in the day.
Result: This explains why this mutation did not increases its frequency steadily and can be an evidence of constant competition between MFR203K and not-MFR203K.