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On 31 January 2020, the Biochemical Society and its publisher, Portland Press, committed to the rapid and open sharing of research data and findings relevant to the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) global pandemic, with the intention of ensuring research findings and data relevant to this outbreak were shared rapidly and openly to help save lives.
Since then, our published articles and new papers relevant to this virus have been available via open access on publication. You can access these via the links below and authors are also encouraged to post submitted versions of articles as preprints.
Note: this collection is frequently updated as new research becomes available.

Emma L. Brudenell; Manoj B. Pohare; Domen Zafred; Janine Phipps; Hailey R. Hornsby; John F. Darby; Junxiao Dai; Ellen Liggett; Kathleen M. Cain; Perdita E. Barran; Thushan I. de Silva; Jon R. Sayers
Therapeutic potential of metal ions for COVID-19: insights from the papain-like protease of SARS-CoV-2
Open Access
Cameron Lee Shetler; Juliana C. Ferreira; Thyago H. S. Cardoso; Edson M.A. Silva; Nitin K. Saksena; Wael M. Rabeh
Douglas B. Kell; Etheresia Pretorius
Gavin D. Garland; Robert F. Harvey; Thomas E. Mulroney; Mie Monti; Stewart Fuller; Richard Haigh; Pehuén Pereyra Gerber; Michael R. Barer; Nicholas J. Matheson; Anne E. Willis
Stefanie M. Bader; James P. Cooney; Marc Pellegrini; Marcel Doerflinger
A central role for amyloid fibrin microclots in long COVID/PASC: origins and therapeutic implications
Open Access
Douglas B. Kell; Gert Jacobus Laubscher; Etheresia Pretorius
Jessie Low-Gan; Ruiqi Huang; Abigail Kelley; Gabrielle Warner Jenkins; Duncan McGregor; Vaughn V. Smider
John F.X. Diffley
An all-out assault on SARS-CoV-2 replication
Open Access
Ronald T. Hay
Identifying SARS-CoV-2 antiviral compounds by screening for small molecule inhibitors of nsp13 helicase
Open Access
Jingkun Zeng; Florian Weissmann; Agustina P. Bertolin; Viktor Posse; Berta Canal; Rachel Ulferts; Mary Wu; Ruth Harvey; Saira Hussain; Jennifer C. Milligan; Chloe Roustan; Annabel Borg; Laura McCoy; Lucy S. Drury; Svend Kjaer; John McCauley; Michael Howell; Rupert Beale; John F.X. Diffley
Agustina P. Bertolin; Florian Weissmann; Jingkun Zeng; Viktor Posse; Jennifer C. Milligan; Berta Canal; Rachel Ulferts; Mary Wu; Lucy S. Drury; Michael Howell; Rupert Beale; John F.X. Diffley
Berta Canal; Ryo Fujisawa; Allison W. McClure; Tom D. Deegan; Mary Wu; Rachel Ulferts; Florian Weissmann; Lucy S. Drury; Agustina P. Bertolin; Jingkun Zeng; Rupert Beale; Michael Howell; Karim Labib; John F.X. Diffley
Chew Theng Lim; Kang Wei Tan; Mary Wu; Rachel Ulferts; Lee A. Armstrong; Eiko Ozono; Lucy S. Drury; Jennifer C. Milligan; Theresa U. Zeisner; Jingkun Zeng; Florian Weissmann; Berta Canal; Ganka Bineva-Todd; Michael Howell; Nicola O'Reilly; Rupert Beale; Yogesh Kulathu; Karim Labib; John F.X. Diffley
Berta Canal; Allison W. McClure; Joseph F. Curran; Mary Wu; Rachel Ulferts; Florian Weissmann; Jingkun Zeng; Agustina P. Bertolin; Jennifer C. Milligan; Souradeep Basu; Lucy S. Drury; Tom D. Deegan; Ryo Fujisawa; Emma L. Roberts; Clovis Basier; Karim Labib; Rupert Beale; Michael Howell; John F.X. Diffley
Souradeep Basu; Tiffany Mak; Rachel Ulferts; Mary Wu; Tom Deegan; Ryo Fujisawa; Kang Wei Tan; Chew Theng Lim; Clovis Basier; Berta Canal; Joseph F. Curran; Lucy S. Drury; Allison W. McClure; Emma L. Roberts; Florian Weissmann; Theresa U. Zeisner; Rupert Beale; Victoria H. Cowling; Michael Howell; Karim Labib; John F.X. Diffley
Identifying SARS-CoV-2 antiviral compounds by screening for small molecule inhibitors of Nsp5 main protease
Open Access
Jennifer C. Milligan; Theresa U. Zeisner; George Papageorgiou; Dhira Joshi; Christelle Soudy; Rachel Ulferts; Mary Wu; Chew Theng Lim; Kang Wei Tan; Florian Weissmann; Berta Canal; Ryo Fujisawa; Tom Deegan; Hema Nagaraj; Ganka Bineva-Todd; Clovis Basier; Joseph F. Curran; Michael Howell; Rupert Beale; Karim Labib; Nicola O'Reilly; John F.X. Diffley
The role of chemical biology in the fight against SARS-CoV-2
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George M. Burslem
Expanding our understanding of the role polyprotein conformation plays in the coronavirus life cycle
Open Access
Samantha Gildenhuys
Boris Krichel; Sven Falke; Rolf Hilgenfeld; Lars Redecke; Charlotte Uetrecht
SARS hCoV papain-like protease is a unique Lys 48 linkage-specific di-distributive deubiquitinating enzyme
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Miklós Békés; Wioletta Rut; Paulina Kasperkiewicz; Monique P.C. Mulder; Huib Ovaa; Marcin Drag; Christopher D. Lima; Tony T. Huang