

While MHV infection in mice and SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans share numerous parallels, there are critical differences in viral recognition and viral entry. In this review, we have highlighted the neuroimmunopathological processes in murine CoVs. Simultaneously, considerable discussion on relevant experimental evidence of mild to severe neurological manifestations of fellow neurotropic murine-β-CoVs (m-CoVs) in the mouse model will help understand the underpinning mechanisms of Neuro-COVID. This review makes references to the neuro-immune axis and neuro-invasive potential of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV2, as well as the prototypic H-CoV strains in human brains. While the mechanism of pulmonary distress has been documented in the literature, awareness of neurological features and their pathophysiology is still in the nascent state. Dysregulated homeostasis in the lungs has proven to be fatal, but one cannot ignore that the inability to breathe might be due to defects in the respiratory control center of the brainstem. The characteristic symptom of COVID-19 is respiratory distress with diffused alveolar damage, but emerging evidence suggests COVID-19 might also have neurologic consequences. Combined virology perspective of SARS-CoV-2 with a deep-rooted understanding of pathophysiological and immunological processes underlying the clinical manifestations of COVID-19 is of prime importance. The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has caused widespread infection and significant mortality across the globe. The cross-talking among these pathways is also discussed. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge on accessory proteins of several representative coronaviruses that infect humans or animals, including the emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), with an emphasis on their roles in interaction between virus and host, mainly involving stress response, innate immunity, autophagy, and apoptosis. The function of accessory proteins on virus infection and pathogenesis is an area of particular interest. Though accessory proteins are dispensable for the replication of coronavirus in vitro, they play important roles in regulating innate immunity, viral proliferation, and pathogenicity. Different coronavirus genera, or even different species within the same coronavirus genus, encode varying amounts of accessory proteins, leading to genus- or species-specificity. These results indicated a novel mechanism by which IBV inhibits the host antiviral response and provide new insights into the selection of antiviral targets against CoV.Ĭoronavirus accessory proteins are a unique set of proteins whose genes are interspersed among or within the genes encoding structural proteins. Furthermore, Nsp14 interacted with Janus kinase 1 (JAK1) to degrade JAK1 via the autophagy pathway, thereby preventing the activation of the JAK-STAT signaling pathway and facilitating viral replication. Nsp14 impaired the nuclear translocation of chSTAT1. Meanwhile, Nsp14 remarkably reduced interferon-gamma-activated sequence (GAS) promoter activation and chIFN-γ-induced interferon-stimulated gene expression. In these cells, Nsp14 protein overexpression blocked IBV suppression induced by exogenous chIFN-γ treatment. Here we report that IBV Nsp14 was a JAK-STAT signaling pathway antagonist in chicken macrophage (HD11) cells. However, the function and mechanism of IBV Nsp14 in regulating the host’s innate immune response remain unclear. This protein has a regulatory role in viral virulence and replication. Nonstructural protein 14 (Nsp14) is a nonstructural protein encoded by the CoV genome. The Gammacoronavirus avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) causes acute and contagious diseases in chickens, leading to severe economic losses. Coronaviruses (CoVs) are RNA viruses that can infect a wide range of animals, including humans, and cause severe respiratory and gastrointestinal disease.
