Becsei, A., Fuschi, A., Otani, S., Kant, R., Weinstein, I., Alba, P., Steger, J., Visontai, D., Brinch, C., de Graaf, M., Schapendonk, C.M.E., Battisti, A., De Cesare, A., Oliveri, C., Troja, F., Vapalahti, O., Pasquali, F., Banyai, K., Mako, M., Pollner, P., Merlotti, A., Koopmans, M., Csabai, I., Remondini, D., Aarestrup, F.M. & Munk, P. 2024, 'Time-series sewage metagenomics distinguishes seasonal, human-derived and environmental microbial communities potentially allowing source-attributed surveillance', Nature Communications, 15(7551), 7551.
Kang, Y., Hepojoki, J., Maldonado, R.S., Mito, T., Terzioglu, M., Manninen, T., Kant, R., Singh, S., Othman, A., Verma, R., Uusimaa, J., Wartiovaara, K., Kareinen, L., Zamboni, N., Nyman, T.A., Paetau, A., Kipar, A., Vapalahti, O. & Suomalainen, A. 2024, 'Ancestral allele of DNA polymerase gamma modifies antiviral tolerance', Nature, 628, pp. 844–853.
Hunt, M., Hinrichs, A.S., Anderson, D., Karim, L., Dearlove, B.L., Knaggs, J., Constantinides, B., Fowler, P.W., Rodger, G., Street, T.L., Lumley, S.F., Webster, H., Sanderson, T., Ruis, C., Maio, N.D., Amenga-Etego, L.N., Amuzu, D.S., Avaro, M., Awandare, G.A. & Ayivor-Djanie, R. et al. 2025, 'Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny', Nature Methods, (Accepted/In press).
Saber, H., Ojha, R.K., Quirin, T., Kant, R., Strandin, T., Kareinen, L., Yak, N., Sironen, T., Vapalahti, O., Balistreri, G. & Joensuu, M. 2025, 'The infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 progeny virions requires the activity of host cell N-myristoyltransferases and it is severely compromised by their inhibition', Nature Communications, (Accepted/In press). Available at:
Mäkelä, A.R., Ugurlu, H., Hannula, L., Kant, R., Salminen, P., Fagerlund, R., Mäki, S., Haveri, A., Strandin, T., Kareinen, L., Hepojoki, J., Kuivanen, S., Levanov, L., Pasternack, A., Naves, R.A., Ritvos, O., Österlund, P., Sironen, T., Vapalahti, O., Kipar, A., Huiskonen, J.T., Rissanen, I. & Saksela, K. 2023, 'Intranasal trimeric sherpabody inhibits SARS-CoV-2 including recent immunoevasive Omicron subvariants', Nature Communications, 14(1), 1637.
Weinstein, I., Vapalahti, O., Kant, R.* & Smura, T.* 2025, 'Lazypipe3: Customizable Virome Analysis Pipeline Enabling Fast and Sensitive Virus Discovery from NGS data', Virus Evolution (In review). Available at:
Kant, R., Kareinen, L., Ojha, R., Strandin, T., Saber, S.H., Lesnikova, A., Kuivanen, S., Sironen, T., Joensuu, M., Vapalahti, O., Kirchhausen, T., Kipar, A. & Balistreri, G. 2023, 'Complete Protection from SARS-CoV-2 Lung Infection in Mice Through Combined Intranasal Delivery of PIKfyve Kinase and TMPRSS2 Protease Inhibitors', bioRxiv. Available at: