Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (5): 2112-2122.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.05.012

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Research Progress on Mechanism of Lipid Raft Involved in Coronavirus Infection and Its Application

WU Qianhui1(), ZHANG Yu1, ZHANG Taoni1, MO Meilan1,2,3,*()   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
    2. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Engineering Research Center of Veterinary Biological Products, Nanning 530004, China
    3. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Disease Control, Nanning 530004, China
  • Received:2024-07-22 Online:2025-05-23 Published:2025-05-27
  • Contact: MO Meilan E-mail:2407211038@qq.com;momeilan@gxu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Coronavirus seriously endangers human and animal health, and its genome is prone to mutation and recombination, which brings great difficulties and challenges to the prevention and control of coronavirus disease. In addition to safe and effective vaccines, broad-spectrum antivirals are urgently needed. Antiviral drugs targeting host factors dependent on viral replication have the advantages of broad spectrum and being less susceptible to resistance. Lipid rafts are a kind of special lipid microdomain located on the surface of cell membrane, which is also the binding site for many viruses to invade host cells, and play a crucial role in the process of coronavirus infection. This review summarized the structure and functions of lipid rafts, coronavirus invasion and its correlation with lipid rafts, the research on lipid rafts ' involvement in coronavirus infection, and the recent application of lipid rafts in the prevention and treatment of coronavirus diseases, aiming to provide direction and reference for the research and development of therapeutic targets for coronaviruses.

Key words: lipid rafts, coronavirus, invasion mechanism, application

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