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 …

A global picture: therapeutic perspectives for COVID-19

VP Chavda, C Kapadia, S Soni, R Prajapati… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic is a lethal virus outbreak by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which has severely affected human lives and the global …

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease in the postvaccine era

AT Ton, M Pandey, JR Smith, F Ban… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
While vaccines remain at the forefront of global healthcare responses, pioneering
therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2 are expected to fill the gaps for waning immunity. Rapid …

Three-dimensional visualization of viral structure, entry, and replication underlying the spread of SARS-CoV-2

JW Saville, AM Berezuk, SS Srivastava… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The global spread of SARS-CoV-2 has proceeded at an unprecedented rate. Remarkably,
characterization of the virus using modern tools in structural biology has also progressed at …

Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Deubiquitinating Activity of the SARS-CoV-2 Papain-Like Protease: in silico Molecular Docking Studies and in vitro …

E Pitsillou, J Liang, K Ververis, KW Lim, A Hung… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 is an ongoing pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus with important political,
socio-economic, and public health consequences. Inhibiting replication represents an …

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 …

Aloin isoforms (A and B) selectively inhibits proteolytic and deubiquitinating activity of papain like protease (PLpro) of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro

DSM Lewis, J Ho, S Wills, A Kawall, A Sharma… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The most common host entry point of human adapted coronaviruses (CoV) including SARS-
CoV-2 is through the initial colonization in the nostril and mouth region which is responsible …

Drug repurposing for the SARS‐CoV‐2 papain‐like protease

CC Cho, SG Li, TJ Lalonde, KS Yang, G Yu… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As the pathogen of COVID‐19, SARS‐CoV‐2 encodes two essential cysteine proteases that
process the pathogen's two large polypeptide products pp1a and pp1ab in the human cell …

Chalcone-amide, a privileged backbone for the design and development of selective SARS-CoV/SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease inhibitors

M Valipour - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The newly emerged coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, is the closest relative of SARS-CoV with high …

Comprehensive consensus analysis of SARS-CoV-2 drug repurposing campaigns

H Mslati, F Gentile, C Perez… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The current COVID-19 pandemic has elicited extensive repurposing efforts (both small and
large scale) to rapidly identify COVID-19 treatments among approved drugs. Herein, we …