Alphacoronavirus
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Alphacoronaviruses (Alpha-CoV) are members of the first of the four genera (Alpha-, Beta-, Gamma-, and Delta-) of coronaviruses. They are positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that infect mammals, including humans. They have spherical virions with club-shaped surface projections formed by trimers of the spike protein, and a viral envelope.
Species
Alphacoronavirus 1
GENUS
- KingdomViruses
- PhylumPisuviricota
- ClassPisoniviricetes
- OrderNidovirales
- FamilyCoronaviridae
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Research
4,263 papers- An alphacoronavirus polymerase structure reveals conserved replication factor functions.Nucleic acids research · 2024
- Swine enteric alphacoronavirus (swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus): An update three years after its discovery.Virus research · 2020
- Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2019
- Genome-scale CRISPR screen identifies TMEM198 driving double membrane vesicle formation in swine alphacoronavirus and murine betacoronavirus infected cells.PLoS pathogens · 2025
- Alphacoronavirus in a Daubenton's Myotis Bat (Myotis daubentonii) in Sweden.Viruses · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Structure
- Genome
- Recombination
- Classification
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Alphacoronaviruses (Alpha-CoV) are members of the first of the four genera (Alpha-, Beta-, Gamma-, and Delta-) of coronaviruses. They are positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that infect mammals, including humans. They have spherical virions with club-shaped surface projections formed by trimers of the spike protein, and a viral envelope.
Alphacoronaviruses are in the subfamily Orthocoronavirinae of the family Coronaviridae. Both the Alpha- and Betacoronavirus lineages descend from the bat viral gene pool. Alphacoronaviruses were previously known as "phylogroup 1 coronaviruses".
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