A high-resolution temporal atlas of the SARS-CoV-2 translatome and transcriptome

  • Doyeon Kim
  • , Sukjun Kim
  • , Joori Park
  • , Hee Ryung Chang
  • , Jeeyoon Chang
  • , Junhak Ahn
  • , Heedo Park
  • , Junehee Park
  • , Narae Son
  • , Gihyeon Kang
  • , Jeonghun Kim
  • , Kisoon Kim
  • , Man Seong Park*
  • , Yoon Ki Kim*
  • , Daehyun Baek*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

COVID-19 is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which infected >200 million people resulting in >4 million deaths. However, temporal landscape of the SARS-CoV-2 translatome and its impact on the human genome remain unexplored. Here, we report a high-resolution atlas of the translatome and transcriptome of SARS-CoV-2 for various time points after infecting human cells. Intriguingly, substantial amount of SARS-CoV-2 translation initiates at a novel translation initiation site (TIS) located in the leader sequence, termed TIS-L. Since TIS-L is included in all the genomic and subgenomic RNAs, the SARS-CoV-2 translatome may be regulated by a sophisticated interplay between TIS-L and downstream TISs. TIS-L functions as a strong translation enhancer for ORF S, and as translation suppressors for most of the other ORFs. Our global temporal atlas provides compelling insight into unique regulation of the SARS-CoV-2 translatome and helps comprehensively evaluate its impact on the human genome.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5120
JournalNature communications
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021 Dec 1

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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