Structural insights into SARS-CoV-2 proteins

R Arya, S Kumari, B Pandey, H Mistry, SC Bihani… - Journal of molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
The unprecedented scale of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed an intense
effort of the global scientific community to unravel different aspects of the disease in a short …

Structural basis of potential inhibitors targeting SARS-CoV-2 main protease

HM Mengist, T Dilnessa, T ** - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic is still devastating the world causing
significant social, economic, and political chaos. Corresponding to the absence of globally …

Molecular mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 resistance to nirmatrelvir

Y Duan, H Zhou, X Liu, S Iketani, M Lin, X Zhang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Nirmatrelvir is a specific antiviral drug that targets the main protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2
and has been approved to treat COVID-19,. As an RNA virus characterized by high mutation …

Masitinib is a broad coronavirus 3CL inhibitor that blocks replication of SARS-CoV-2

N Drayman, JK DeMarco, KA Jones, SA Azizi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
There is an urgent need for antiviral agents that treat severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We screened a library of 1900 clinically safe drugs …

[HTML][HTML] Both Boceprevir and GC376 efficaciously inhibit SARS-CoV-2 by targeting its main protease

L Fu, F Ye, Y Feng, F Yu, Q Wang, Y Wu, C Zhao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11 by WHO, due to its great threat to global
public health. The coronavirus main protease (M pro, also called 3CLpro) is essential for …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of Mpro from SARS-CoV-2 and discovery of its inhibitors

Z **, X Du, Y Xu, Y Deng, M Liu, Y Zhao, B Zhang, X Li… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A new coronavirus, known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2), is the aetiological agent responsible for the 2019–2020 viral pneumonia outbreak of …

Structure-based design of antiviral drug candidates targeting the SARS-CoV-2 main protease

W Dai, B Zhang, XM Jiang, H Su, J Li, Y Zhao, X **e… - Science, 2020 - science.org
SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is the etiological agent
responsible for the global COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak. The main …

Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease provides a basis for design of improved α-ketoamide inhibitors

L Zhang, D Lin, X Sun, U Curth, C Drosten… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a global health emergency. An attractive drug …

α-Ketoamides as broad-spectrum inhibitors of coronavirus and enterovirus replication: structure-based design, synthesis, and activity assessment

L Zhang, D Lin, Y Kusov, Y Nian, Q Ma… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The main protease of coronaviruses and the 3C protease of enteroviruses share a similar
active-site architecture and a unique requirement for glutamine in the P1 position of the …

Crystallographic structure of wild-type SARS-CoV-2 main protease acyl-enzyme intermediate with physiological C-terminal autoprocessing site

J Lee, LJ Worrall, M Vuckovic, FI Rosell… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen
that causes the disease COVID-19, produces replicase polyproteins 1a and 1ab that …