SARS‐CoV‐2 papain‐like protease: structure, function and inhibition

S Ullrich, C Nitsche - Chembiochem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging variants of SARS‐CoV‐2 and potential novel epidemic coronaviruses underline
the importance of investigating various viral proteins as potential drug targets. The papain …

[HTML][HTML] Antiviral activity of natural phenolic compounds in complex at an allosteric site of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

V Srinivasan, H Brognaro, PR Prabhu… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease (PLpro) covers multiple functions. Beside the
cysteine-protease activity, facilitating cleavage of the viral polypeptide chain, PLpro has the …

Discovery of novel papain-like protease inhibitors for potential treatment of COVID-19

F Hersi, A Sebastian, H Tarazi, V Srinivasulu… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The recent emergence of different SARS-CoV-2 variants creates an urgent need to develop
more effective therapeutic agents to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks. Among SARS-CoV-2 …

Structure-based design of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease inhibitors

P Jadhav, B Huang, J Osipiuk, X Zhang, H Tan… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by SARS-CoV-2, an RNA virus with high transmissibility
and mutation rate. Given the paucity of orally bioavailable antiviral drugs to combat SARS …

[HTML][HTML] Potential inhibitors targeting papain-like protease of SARS-CoV-2: two birds with one stone

H Jiang, P Yang, J Zhang - Frontiers in chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen of the
Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), is still devastating the world causing significant chaos …

[HTML][HTML] Development of potent and selective inhibitors targeting the papain-like protease of SARS-CoV-2

H Shan, J Liu, J Shen, J Dai, G Xu, K Lu, C Han… - Cell chemical …, 2021 - cell.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous to society and effective drugs are urgently
needed. The papain-like protease domain (PLpro) of SARS-CoV-2 (SCoV2) is …

[HTML][HTML] The complex structure of GRL0617 and SARS-CoV-2 PLpro reveals a hot spot for antiviral drug discovery

Z Fu, B Huang, J Tang, S Liu, M Liu, Y Ye, Z Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 is the pathogen responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The SARS-CoV-2
papain-like cysteine protease (PLpro) has been implicated in playing important roles in virus …

Targeting SARS‐CoV‐2 viral proteases as a therapeutic strategy to treat COVID‐19

V Anirudhan, H Lee, H Cheng… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The 21st century has witnessed three outbreaks of coronavirus (CoVs) infections caused by
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)‐CoV, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) …

Structure‐activity relationships of benzamides and isoindolines designed as SARS‐CoV protease inhibitors effective against SARS‐CoV‐2

A Welker, C Kersten, C Müller, R Madhugiri… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inhibition of coronavirus (CoV)‐encoded papain‐like cysteine proteases (PLpro) represents
an attractive strategy to treat infections by these important human pathogens. Herein we …

[HTML][HTML] Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

X Gao, B Qin, P Chen, K Zhu, P Hou, JA Wojdyla… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is changing the world like never
before. This crisis is unlikely contained in the absence of effective therapeutics or vaccine …