Bench-to-bedside: Innovation of small molecule anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs in China

L Yang, Z Wang - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of deaths globally, highlighting
the need to develop potent prophylactic and therapeutic strategies against SARS-CoV-2 …

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 main protease for treatment of COVID-19: covalent inhibitors structure–activity relationship insights and evolution perspectives

G La Monica, A Bono, A Lauria… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The viral main protease is one of the most attractive targets among all key enzymes involved
in the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle. Covalent inhibition of the cysteine145 of SARS-CoV-2 MPRO …

SARS-CoV-2 main protease drug design, assay development, and drug resistance studies

B Tan, R Joyce, H Tan, Y Hu… - Accounts of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus SARS-CoV-2 is the etiological pathogen of the COVID-19 pandemic, which led
to more than 6.5 million deaths since the beginning of the outbreak in December 2019. The …

Covalent narlaprevir-and boceprevir-derived hybrid inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease

DW Kneller, H Li, G Phillips, KL Weiss, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to threaten the effectiveness of COVID-19
vaccines, and small-molecule antivirals can provide an important therapeutic treatment …

Structure and function of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 main proteases and their inhibition: A comprehensive review

X Li, Y Song - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) identified in 2003
infected∼ 8000 people in 26 countries with 800 deaths, which was soon contained and …

Small molecules in the treatment of COVID-19

S Lei, X Chen, J Wu, X Duan, K Men - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
The outbreak of COVID-19 has become a global crisis, and brought severe disruptions to
societies and economies. Until now, effective therapeutics against COVID-19 are in high …

Discovery of di-and trihaloacetamides as covalent SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors with high target specificity

C Ma, Z Xia, MD Sacco, Y Hu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The main protease (Mpro) is a validated antiviral drug target of SARS-CoV-2. A number of
Mpro inhibitors have now advanced to animal model study and human clinical trials …

Recent advances in SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors: from nirmatrelvir to future perspectives

A Citarella, A Dimasi, D Moi, D Passarella, A Scala… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The main protease (Mpro) plays a pivotal role in the replication of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and is considered a highly conserved viral target …

In the age of Omicron variant: Paxlovid raises new hopes of COVID‐19 recovery.

Z Wang, L Yang - Journal of medical virology, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2, in December 2019, the
ongoing pandemic has posed 5 318 216 deaths worldwide. 1 Vaccines, traditional Chinese …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of the main protease of SARS-CoV-2 (Mpro) by repurposing/designing drug-like substances and utilizing nature's toolbox of bioactive compounds

I Antonopoulou, E Sapountzaki, U Rova… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)
has resulted in a long pandemic, with numerous cases and victims worldwide and enormous …