Molecular characteristics, immune evasion, and impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants

C Sun, C Xie, GL Bu, LY Zhong, MS Zeng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The persistent COVID-19 pandemic since 2020 has brought an enormous public health
burden to the global society and is accompanied by various evolution of the virus genome …

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 …

Synthesis and characterization of gelatin/lignin hydrogels as quick release drug carriers for Ribavirin

E Chiani, A Beaucamp, Y Hamzeh, M Azadfallah… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, hydrogels based on gelatin and lignin were fabricated as efficient drug carriers
for Ribavirin. The obtained hydrogels were characterized by scanning electron microscopy …

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 …

Drug combinations as a first line of defense against coronaviruses and other emerging viruses

JM White, JT Schiffer, RA Bender Ignacio, S Xu… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The world was unprepared for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and remains ill-
equipped for future pandemics. While unprecedented strides have been made developing …

Flavonoids in Ampelopsis grossedentata as covalent inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro: Inhibition potentials, covalent binding sites and inhibitory mechanisms

Y Xiong, GH Zhu, YN Zhang, Q Hu, HN Wang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus 3C-like protease (3CL pro) is a crucial target for treating coronavirus
diseases including COVID-19. Our preliminary screening showed that Ampelopsis …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy and safety of SIM0417 (SSD8432) plus ritonavir for COVID-19 treatment: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1b trial

F Wang, W Xiao, Y Tang, M Cao, D Shu… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Summary Background SIM0417 (SSD8432) is an orally administered coronavirus main
proteinase (3CL pro) inhibitor with potential anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity. This study aimed to …

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 …

AI-accelerated protein-ligand docking for SARS-CoV-2 is 100-fold faster with no significant change in detection

A Clyde, X Liu, T Brettin, H Yoo, A Partin, Y Babuji… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Protein-ligand docking is a computational method for identifying drug leads. The method is
capable of narrowing a vast library of compounds down to a tractable size for downstream …

Beyond the vaccines: a glance at the small molecule and peptide-based anti-COVID19 arsenal

K Nepali, R Sharma, S Sharma, A Thakur… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Unprecedented efforts of the researchers have been witnessed in the recent past towards
the development of vaccine platforms for the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Albeit …