Drug repurposing for COVID-19: Approaches, challenges and promising candidates

YL Ng, CK Salim, JJH Chu - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional drug development and discovery has not kept pace with threats from emerging
and re-emerging diseases such as Ebola virus, MERS-CoV and more recently, SARS-CoV …

Drug repositioning: Progress and challenges in drug discovery for various diseases

Y Hua, X Dai, Y Xu, G Xing, H Liu, T Lu, Y Chen… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional de novo drug discovery, drug repurposing has become an
attractive drug discovery strategy due to its low-cost and high efficiency. Through a …

A review on computer‐aided chemogenomics and drug repositioning for rational COVID‐19 drug discovery

S Maghsoudi, B Taghavi Shahraki… - Chemical Biology & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Application of materials capable of energy harvesting to increase the efficiency and
environmental adaptability is sometimes reflected in the ability of discovery of some traces in …

A blueprint for high affinity SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors from activity-based compound library screening guided by analysis of protein dynamics

J Gossen, S Albani, A Hanke, BP Joseph… - ACS pharmacology & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus outbreak continues to spread at a rapid rate worldwide. The
main protease (Mpro) is an attractive target for anti-COVID-19 agents. Unexpected …

Hepatitis C Virus Protease Inhibitors Show Differential Efficacy and Interactions with Remdesivir for Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 In Vitro

KA Gammeltoft, Y Zhou… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antivirals targeting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) could
improve treatment of COVID-19. We evaluated the efficacy of clinically relevant hepatitis C …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinformatics-based investigation on the genetic influence between SARS-CoV-2 infections and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) diseases, and drug …

MA Islam, MK Kibria, MB Hossen, MS Reza… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Some recent studies showed that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) infections and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) disease might stimulate each other …

[HTML][HTML] Saquinavir: From HIV to COVID-19 and cancer treatment

M Pereira, N Vale - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Saquinavir was the first protease inhibitor developed for HIV therapy, and it changed the
standard of treatment for this disease to a combination of drugs that ultimately led to …

Targeting multiple conformations of SARS-CoV2 Papain-Like Protease for drug repositioning: An in-silico study

MI Ismail, HM Ragab, AA Bekhit, TM Ibrahim - Computers in biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Papain-Like Protease (PLpro) is a key protein for SARS-CoV-2 viral replication
which is the cause of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. Targeting PLpro can suppress viral …

[HTML][HTML] Anticancer potential of phytochemicals from Oroxylum indicum targeting Lactate Dehydrogenase A through bioinformatic approach

SS Ahmed, MO Rahman, AS Alqahtani, N Sultana… - Toxicology Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, small molecule inhibition of LDHA (Lactate Dehydrogenase A) has evolved
as an appealing option for anticancer therapy. LDHA catalyzes the interconversion of …

Experimental pharmacotherapy for COVID-19: the latest advances

P Pagliano, G Scarpati, C Sellitto, V Conti… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (COVID-19) has overwhelmed like a shock wave in
a completely unprepared world. Despite coronavirus infections were involved in previous …