Caspases and therapeutic potential of caspase inhibitors in moderate–severe SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and long COVID

M Plassmeyer, O Alpan, MJ Corley, TA Premeaux… - Allergy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background COVID‐19 can present with lymphopenia and extraordinary complex
multiorgan pathologies that can trigger long‐term sequela. Aims Given that inflammasome …

Therapeutic strategies to fight COVID‐19: Which is the status artis?

C Scavone, A Mascolo, C Rafaniello… - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19 is a complex disease, and many difficulties are faced today especially in the
proper choice of pharmacological treatments. The role of antiviral agents for COVID‐19 is …

Urgent reconsideration of lung edema as a preventable outcome in COVID-19: inhibition of TRPV4 represents a promising and feasible approach

WM Kuebler, SE Jordt… - American Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Lethality of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the 2020 pandemic, currently still in the
exponentially accelerating phase in most countries, is critically driven by disruption of the …

[HTML][HTML] Impaired breakdown of bradykinin and its metabolites as a possible cause for pulmonary edema in COVID-19 infection

S de Maat, Q de Mast, AHJ Danser… - … in thrombosis and …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
A growing body of clinical evidence shows that vascular leakage leads to pulmonary edema
in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. Coronaviruses including severe acute …

[HTML][HTML] Cathepsin G—not only inflammation: the immune protease can regulate normal physiological processes

TS Zamolodchikova, SM Tolpygo… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cathepsin G (CathG) is a serine protease that controls the functional state of immune cells
and is traditionally considered to be one of the effectors of inflammation (1). The substrate …

Identification of 14 known drugs as inhibitors of the main protease of SARS-CoV-2

MM Ghahremanpour, J Tirado-Rives… - ACS medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A consensus virtual screening protocol has been applied to ca. 2000 approved drugs to
seek inhibitors of the main protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID …

[HTML][HTML] Ginkgolic acid and anacardic acid are specific covalent inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 cysteine proteases

Z Chen, Q Cui, L Cooper, P Zhang, H Lee, Z Chen… - Cell & Bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Background In the urgent campaign to develop therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2, natural
products have been an important source of new lead compounds. Results We herein …

Epithelial desquamation observed in a phase I study of an oral cathepsin C inhibitor (GSK2793660)

BE Miller, RJ Mayer, N Goyal, J Bal… - British journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Cathepsin C (CTSC) is necessary for the activation of several serine proteases
including neutrophil elastase (NE), cathepsin G and proteinase 3. GSK2793660 is an oral …

MPI8 is potent against SARS‐CoV‐2 by inhibiting dually and selectively the SARS‐CoV‐2 main protease and the host cathepsin L

XR Ma, YR Alugubelli, Y Ma, EC Vatansever… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A number of inhibitors have been developed for the SARS‐CoV‐2 main protease (MPro) as
potential COVID‐19 medications but little is known about their selectivity. Using enzymatic …

Tea Polyphenols EGCG and Theaflavin Inhibit the Activity of SARS‐CoV‐2 3CL‐Protease In Vitro

M Jang, YI Park, YE Cha, R Park… - Evidence‐Based …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19, a global pandemic, has caused over 750,000 deaths worldwide as of August
2020. A vaccine or remedy for SARS‐CoV‐2, the virus responsible for COVID‐19, is …