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 …

The SARS‐CoV‐2 main protease (Mpro): Structure, function, and emerging therapies for COVID‐19

Q Hu, Y **ong, GH Zhu, YN Zhang, YW Zhang… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The main proteases (Mpro), also termed 3‐chymotrypsin‐like proteases (3CLpro), are a
class of highly conserved cysteine hydrolases in β‐coronaviruses. Increasing evidence has …

Potent noncovalent inhibitors of the main protease of SARS-CoV-2 from molecular sculpting of the drug perampanel guided by free energy perturbation calculations

CH Zhang, EA Stone, M Deshmukh… - ACS central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Starting from our previous finding of 14 known drugs as inhibitors of the main protease
(Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, we have redesigned the weak …

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 …

SARS-CoV-2 antiviral therapy

K Tao, PL Tzou, J Nouhin, H Bonilla… - Clinical microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The development of effective antiviral therapy for COVID-19 is critical for those awaiting
vaccination, as well as for those who do not respond robustly to vaccination. This review …

Morphological cell profiling of SARS-CoV-2 infection identifies drug repurposing candidates for COVID-19

C Mirabelli, JW Wotring, CJ Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The global spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),
and the associated disease COVID-19, requires therapeutic interventions that can be rapidly …

Targeting the main protease of SARS‐CoV‐2: from the establishment of high throughput screening to the design of tailored inhibitors

J Breidenbach, C Lemke, T Pillaiyar… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The main protease of SARS‐CoV‐2 (Mpro), the causative agent of COVID‐19, constitutes a
significant drug target. A new fluorogenic substrate was kinetically compared to an internally …

Transformer-based molecular generative model for antiviral drug design

J Mao, J Wang, A Zeb, KH Cho, H **… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Since the Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) is oriented to the atomic-
level representation of molecules and is not friendly in terms of human readability and …

Quercetin and luteolin are single-digit micromolar inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

F Munafò, E Donati, N Brindani, G Ottonello… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly become a
global health pandemic. Among the viral proteins, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) …

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 …