COVID-19: drug targets and potential treatments

C Gil, T Ginex, I Maestro, V Nozal… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Currently, humans are immersed in a pandemic caused by the emerging severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which threatens public health …

Molecular Insights into Small‐Molecule Drug Discovery for SARS‐CoV‐2

H Su, F Zhou, Z Huang, X Ma, K Natarajan… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The mainstream approach to antiviral drugs against COVID‐19 is to focus on key stages of
the SARS‐CoV‐2 life cycle. The vast majority of candidates under investigation are …

Potential inhibitors for novel coronavirus protease identified by virtual screening of 606 million compounds

A Fischer, M Sellner, S Neranjan, M Smieško… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The rapid outbreak of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) in China followed by its spread around the world poses a serious global concern for …

Thiopurine analogs and mycophenolic acid synergistically inhibit the papain-like protease of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

KW Cheng, SC Cheng, WY Chen, MH Lin, SJ Chuang… - Antiviral research, 2015 - Elsevier
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a new highly pathogenic
human coronaviruses that emerged in Jeddah and Saudi Arabia and has quickly spread to …

X-ray structural and biological evaluation of a series of potent and highly selective inhibitors of human coronavirus papain-like proteases

YM Báez-Santos, SJ Barraza, MW Wilson… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Structure-guided design was used to generate a series of noncovalent inhibitors with
nanomolar potency against the papain-like protease (PLpro) from the SARS coronavirus …

Catalytic function and substrate specificity of the papain-like protease domain of nsp3 from the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

YM Báez-Santos, AM Mielech, X Deng, S Baker… - Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The papain-like protease (PLpro) domain from the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome
coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was overexpressed and purified. MERS-CoV PLpro constructs …

Inhibitor recognition specificity of MERS-CoV papain-like protease may differ from that of SARS-CoV

H Lee, H Lei, BD Santarsiero, JL Gatuz… - ACS chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) papain-like protease
(PLpro) blocking loop 2 (BL2) structure differs significantly from that of SARS-CoV PLpro …

GRL-0920, an indole chloropyridinyl ester, completely blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection

S Hattori, N Higshi-Kuwata, J Raghavaiah, D Das… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
We assessed various newly generated compounds that target the main protease (Mpro) of
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and various previously …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of multipotent drugs for COVID-19 therapeutics with the evaluation of their SARS-CoV2 inhibitory activity

S Kumar, B Singh, P Kumari, PV Kumar… - Computational and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The SARS-CoV2 is a highly contagious pathogen that causes COVID-19 disease. It has
affected millions of people globally with an average lethality of~ 3%. There is an urgent need …

The race to treat COVID-19: Potential therapeutic agents for the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2

I Ahmad - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
The unforeseen emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) at the Wuhan province of China in …