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 …

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 …

Supersulphides provide airway protection in viral and chronic lung diseases

T Matsunaga, H Sano, K Takita, M Morita… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Supersulphides are inorganic and organic sulphides with sulphur catenation with diverse
physiological functions. Their synthesis is mainly mediated by mitochondrial cysteinyl-tRNA …

Oxidative protein folding fidelity and redoxtasis in the endoplasmic reticulum

L Wang, C Wang - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2023 - cell.com
In eukaryotic cells, oxidative protein folding occurs in the lumen of the endoplasmic
reticulum (ER), catalyzed by ER sulfhydryl oxidase 1 (Ero1) and protein disulfide isomerase …

Disulfide bonds play a critical role in the structure and function of the receptor-binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike antigen

AM Grishin, NV Dolgova, S Landreth, O Fisette… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current coronavirus pandemic is exerting a tremendously detrimental impact on global
health. The Spike proteins of coronaviruses, responsible for cell receptor binding and viral …

Selenium—more than just a fortuitous sulfur substitute in redox biology

LB Maia, BK Maiti, I Moura, JJG Moura - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Living organisms use selenium mainly in the form of selenocysteine in the active site of
oxidoreductases. Here, selenium's unique chemistry is believed to modulate the reaction …

Solid-phase compatible silane-based cleavable linker enables custom isobaric quantitative chemoproteomics

NR Burton, DA Polasky, F Shikwana… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mass spectrometry-based chemoproteomics has emerged as an enabling technology for
functional biology and drug discovery. To address limitations of established …

Functionalizing tandem mass tags for streamlining click-based quantitative chemoproteomics

NR Burton, KM Backus - Communications Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Map** the ligandability or potential druggability of all proteins in the human proteome is a
central goal of mass spectrometry-based covalent chemoproteomics. Achieving this …

[HTML][HTML] Decoy peptides effectively inhibit the binding of SARS-CoV-2 to ACE2 on oral epithelial cells

LK Loi, CC Yang, YC Lin, YF Su, YC Juan, YH Chen… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The entry of SARS-CoV-2 into host cells involves the interaction between the viral spike
protein and the human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor. Given that the …

N-acetylcysteine reduces inflammasome activation induced by SARS-coV-2 proteins in vitro

J Milara, F Martínez-Expósito, P Montero… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inflammasome activation is one of the first steps in initiating innate immune responses. In
this work, we studied the activation of inflammasomes in the airways of critically ill COVID-19 …