Coronavirus infections in children including COVID-19: an overview of the epidemiology, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment and prevention options in children

P Zimmermann, N Curtis - The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a large family of enveloped, single-stranded, zoonotic RNA
viruses. Four CoVs commonly circulate among humans: HCoV2-229E,-HKU1,-NL63 and …

Progress and challenges in targeting the SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

H Tan, Y Hu, P Jadhav, B Tan… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The approval of vaccines
and small-molecule antivirals is vital in combating the pandemic. The viral polymerase …

[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 …

Mechanism and inhibition of the papain‐like protease, PLpro, of SARS‐CoV‐2

T Klemm, G Ebert, DJ Calleja, CC Allison… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
The SARS‐CoV‐2 coronavirus encodes an essential papain‐like protease domain as part of
its non‐structural protein (nsp)‐3, namely SARS2 PLpro, that cleaves the viral polyprotein …

[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 …

Recent discovery and development of inhibitors targeting coronaviruses

T Pillaiyar, S Meenakshisundaram, M Manickam - Drug discovery today, 2020 - Elsevier
Human coronaviruses (CoVs) are enveloped viruses with a positive-sense single-stranded
RNA genome. Currently, six human CoVs have been reported including human coronavirus …

Nsp3 of coronaviruses: Structures and functions of a large multi-domain protein

J Lei, Y Kusov, R Hilgenfeld - Antiviral research, 2018 - Elsevier
The multi-domain non-structural protein 3 (Nsp3) is the largest protein encoded by the
coronavirus (CoV) genome, with an average molecular mass of about 200 kD. Nsp3 is an …

Drug development and medicinal chemistry efforts toward SARS‐coronavirus and Covid‐19 therapeutics

AK Ghosh, M Brindisi, D Shahabi… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic caused by SARS‐CoV‐2 infection is spreading at an alarming
rate and has created an unprecedented health emergency around the globe. There is no …

Characterization and noncovalent inhibition of the deubiquitinase and deISGylase activity of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

BT Freitas, IA Durie, J Murray, JE Longo… - ACS infectious …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent for
COVID-19, is a novel human betacoronavirus that is rapidly spreading worldwide. The …

[HTML][HTML] Coronaviruses—drug discovery and therapeutic options

A Zumla, JFW Chan, EI Azhar, DSC Hui… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2016 - nature.com
In humans, infections with the human coronavirus (HCoV) strains HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43,
HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-HKU1 usually result in mild, self-limiting upper respiratory tract …