1 Nucleocapsid protein recruitment to replication-transcription complexes 1 plays a crucial role in coronaviral life cycle 2 3 4 Yingying Conga, Mustafa Ulaslib, Hein Schepersa, Mario Mauthea, Philip V’kovskic,d, Franziska 5 Kriegenburga, Volker Thielc,d, Cornelis A.M. de Haane, Fulvio Reggioria,b# 6 7 8 aDepartment of Biomedical Sciences of Cells & Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, 9 University of Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands 10 bDepartment of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX 11 Utrecht, The Netherlands 12 cInstitute of Virology and Immunology IVI, Bern, Switzerland 13 dDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 14 Bern, Switzerland 15 eVirology Division, Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary 16 Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 17 18 #Correspondence: