Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Accelerating antiviral drug discovery: lessons from COVID-19

A von Delft, MD Hall, AD Kwong, LA Purcell… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a wave of rapid and
collaborative drug discovery efforts took place in academia and industry, culminating in …

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 …

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 …

Antiviral drug discovery for the treatment of COVID-19 infections

TI Ng, I Correia, J Seagal, DA DeGoey, MR Schrimpf… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a recently emerged human coronavirus …

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 proteases for COVID-19 antiviral development

Z Lv, KE Cano, L Jia, M Drag, TT Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019 marked the
third occurrence of a highly pathogenic coronavirus in the human population since 2003. As …

Inhibitors of sars-cov-2 plpro

DJ Calleja, G Lessene, D Komander - Frontiers in chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 causing the COVID-19 pandemic, has highlighted how a
combination of urgency, collaboration and building on existing research can enable rapid …

Mutational profiling of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease reveals requirements for function, structure, and drug escape

X Wu, M Go, JV Nguyen, NW Kuchel, BGC Lu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Papain-like protease (PLpro) is an attractive drug target for SARS-CoV-2 because it is
essential for viral replication, cleaving viral poly-proteins pp1a and pp1ab, and has de …

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 …

SARS‐CoV‐2 papain‐like protease: structure, function and inhibition

S Ullrich, C Nitsche - Chembiochem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging variants of SARS‐CoV‐2 and potential novel epidemic coronaviruses underline
the importance of investigating various viral proteins as potential drug targets. The papain …