The SARS-CoV-2 main protease as drug target

S Ullrich, C Nitsche - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The unprecedented pandemic of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) is threatening global health. The virus emerged in late 2019 and can cause a …

Paxlovid: Mechanism of Action, Synthesis, and In Silico Study

M Marzi, MK Vakil, M Bahmanyar… - BioMed Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, the discovery and description of PF‐07321332, a major bioavailable oral SARS‐
CoV‐2 protease inhibitor with in vitro human coronavirus antiviral activity, and excellent …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of the SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV) 3C-like protease (3CL pro) structure: virtual screening reveals velpatasvir, ledipasvir, and other drug repurposing …

YW Chen, CPB Yiu, KY Wong - F1000Research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We prepared the three-dimensional model of the SARS-CoV-2 (aka 2019-nCoV) 3C-like
protease (3CL pro) using the crystal structure of the highly similar (96% identity) ortholog …

Structural plasticity of SARS-CoV-2 3CL Mpro active site cavity revealed by room temperature X-ray crystallography

DW Kneller, G Phillips, HM O'Neill… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has become a pandemic
health crisis. An attractive target for antiviral inhibitors is the main protease 3CL Mpro due to …

Scutellaria baicalensis extract and baicalein inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2 and its 3C-like protease in vitro

H Liu, F Ye, Q Sun, H Liang, C Li, S Li… - Journal of enzyme …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
COVID-19 has become a global pandemic and there is an urgent call for developing drugs
against the virus (SARS-CoV-2). The 3C-like protease (3CLpro) of SARS-CoV-2 is a …

Targeting the dimerization of the main protease of coronaviruses: a potential broad-spectrum therapeutic strategy

B Goyal, D Goyal - ACS combinatorial science, 2020 - ACS Publications
A new coronavirus (CoV) caused a pandemic named COVID-19, which has become a
global health care emergency in the present time. The virus is referred to as SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Structural elucidation of SARS-CoV-2 vital proteins: Computational methods reveal potential drug candidates against main protease, Nsp12 polymerase and …

MU Mirza, M Froeyen - Journal of pharmaceutical analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 caused a major outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) and instigated a widespread fear, threatening global health safety. To date, no …

An overview of severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus (SARS-CoV) 3CL protease inhibitors: peptidomimetics and small molecule chemotherapy

T Pillaiyar, M Manickam, V Namasivayam… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is caused by a newly emerged coronavirus that
infected more than 8000 individuals and resulted in more than 800 (10–15%) fatalities in …

SARS-CoV-2 Mpro: A Potential Target for Peptidomimetics and Small-Molecule Inhibitors

A Citarella, A Scala, A Piperno, N Micale - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The uncontrolled spread of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus SARS-
CoV-2 during 2020–2021 is one of the most devastating events in the history, with …

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 …