Structure and function of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 main proteases and their inhibition: A comprehensive review

X Li, Y Song - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) identified in 2003
infected∼ 8000 people in 26 countries with 800 deaths, which was soon contained and …

Drug development and medicinal chemistry efforts toward SARS‐coronavirus and Covid‐19 therapeutics

AK Ghosh, M Brindisi, D Shahabi… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic caused by SARS‐CoV‐2 infection is spreading at an alarming
rate and has created an unprecedented health emergency around the globe. There is no …

3CL protease inhibitors with an electrophilic arylketone moiety as anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents

S Konno, K Kobayashi, M Senda, Y Funai… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has been identified as the causative agent for the
current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 3CL protease (3CLpro) plays a pivotal …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial intelligence approach fighting COVID-19 with repurposing drugs

YY Ke, TT Peng, TK Yeh, WZ Huang, SE Chang… - Biomedical journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 193,825 deaths
during the past few months. A quick-to-be-identified cure for the disease will be a therapeutic …

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 …

The development of Coronavirus 3C-Like protease (3CLpro) inhibitors from 2010 to 2020

Y Liu, C Liang, L **n, X Ren, L Tian, X Ju, H Li… - European journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This review fully describes the coronavirus 3CL pro peptidomimetic inhibitors and
nonpeptidic small molecule inhibitors developed from 2010 to 2020. Specifically, the …

Perspectives on SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors

K Gao, R Wang, J Chen, JJ Tepe… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The main protease (Mpro) plays a crucial role in severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) replication and is highly conserved, rendering it one of the …

Small-molecule thioesters as SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors: enzyme inhibition, structure–activity relationships, antiviral activity, and X-ray structure …

T Pillaiyar, P Flury, N Krüger, H Su… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The main protease (Mpro, 3CLpro) of SARS-CoV-2 is an attractive target in coronaviruses
because of its crucial involvement in viral replication and transcription. Here, we report on …

COVID-19 therapeutics: Small-molecule drug development targeting SARS-CoV-2 main protease

T Kronenberger, SA Laufer, T Pillaiyar - Drug Discovery Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•The main protease, known as M pro, is encoded by the viral genome and is
essential for viral replication.•The effective target for drug development has been the M …

Synthesis and applications of nitrogen-containing heterocycles as antiviral agents

TN Tran, M Henary - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Viruses have been a long-term source of infectious diseases that can lead to large-scale
infections and massive deaths. Especially with the recent highly contagious coronavirus …