Current trends in computer aided drug design and a highlight of drugs discovered via computational techniques: A review

VT Sabe, T Ntombela, LA Jhamba… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Computer-aided drug design (CADD) is one of the pivotal approaches to contemporary pre-
clinical drug discovery, and various computational techniques and software programs are …

Shikonin, a naphthalene ingredient: Therapeutic actions, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, clinical trials and pharmaceutical researches

Q Sun, T Gong, M Liu, S Ren, H Yang, S Zeng, H Zhao… - Phytomedicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Shikonin is one of the major phytochemical components of Lithospermum
erythrorhizon (Purple Cromwell), which is a type of medicinal herb broadly utilized in …

Targeting COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) main protease through active phytocompounds of ayurvedic medicinal plants–Emblica officinalis (Amla), Phyllanthus niruri Linn …

S Murugesan, S Kottekad, I Crasta… - Computers in biology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19), a viral disease caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) was declared a global pandemic by …

[HTML][HTML] Potential bioactive glycosylated flavonoids as SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors: A molecular docking and simulation studies

SA Cherrak, H Merzouk, N Mokhtari-Soulimane - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
A novel coronavirus responsible of acute respiratory infection closely related to SARS-CoV
has recently emerged. So far there is no consensus for drug treatment to stop the spread of …

Benchmarking refined and unrefined AlphaFold2 structures for hit discovery

Y Zhang, M Vass, D Shi, E Abualrous… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The recently developed AlphaFold2 (AF2) algorithm predicts proteins' 3D structures from
amino acid sequences. The open AlphaFold protein structure database covers the complete …

[HTML][HTML] Contributions of human ACE2 and TMPRSS2 in determining host–pathogen interaction of COVID-19

S Senapati, P Banerjee, S Bhagavatula… - Journal of genetics, 2021 - Springer
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is at present an
emerging global public health crisis. Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and trans …

[HTML][HTML] Medicinal plants, phytochemicals, and herbs to combat viral pathogens including SARS-CoV-2

AV Anand, B Balamuralikrishnan, M Kaviya, K Bharathi… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome corona virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), is the most important health issue, internationally …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in the drug development targeting SARS-CoV-2 main protease as treatment for COVID-19

W Cui, K Yang, H Yang - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The sudden outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV, later named SARS-CoV-2)
rapidly turned into an unprecedented pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Role of proteolytic enzymes in the COVID-19 infection and promising therapeutic approaches

M Gioia, C Ciaccio, P Calligari, G De Simone… - Biochemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the Fall of 2019 a sudden and dramatic outbreak of a pulmonary disease (Coronavirus
Disease COVID-19), due to a new Coronavirus strain (ie, SARS-CoV-2), emerged in the …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacoinformatics-based investigation of bioactive compounds of Rasam (South Indian recipe) against human cancer

AK Kalimuthu, T Panneerselvam, P Pavadai… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Spice-rich recipes are referred to as “functional foods” because they include a variety of
bioactive chemicals that have health-promoting properties, in addition to their nutritional …