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Decreased MERS-CoV yields in vitro and in vivo were associated with increased transition mutation frequency in viral but not host cell RNA, supporting a mechanism of lethal mutagenesis. The potency of NHC/EIDD-2801 against multiple coronaviruses, its therapeutic efficacy, and oral bioavailability in vivo , all highlight its potential utility as an effective antiviral against SARS-CoV-2 and other future zoonotic coronaviruses.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2020,"id":118928,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":34,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9586,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":254643,"name":"Amy Sims","orcid":"0000-0003-0178-4225","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":416700,"name":"Shuntai Zhou","orcid":"0000-0002-8353-386X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":103705,"name":"Rachel L. 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