Accelerating antiviral drug discovery: lessons from COVID-19

A Von Delft, MD Hall, AD Kwong, LA Purcell… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023‏ - nature.com
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a wave of rapid and
collaborative drug discovery efforts took place in academia and industry, culminating in …

Defining the risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants on immune protection

MM DeGrace, E Ghedin, MB Frieman, F Krammer… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The global emergence of many severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) variants jeopardizes the protective antiviral immunity induced after infection or …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammasome activation in infected macrophages drives COVID-19 pathology

E Sefik, R Qu, C Junqueira, E Kaffe, H Mirza, J Zhao… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Severe COVID-19 is characterized by persistent lung inflammation, inflammatory cytokine
production, viral RNA and a sustained interferon (IFN) response, all of which are …

Mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase confer resistance to remdesivir by distinct mechanisms

LJ Stevens, AJ Pruijssers, HW Lee… - Science translational …, 2022‏ - science.org
The nucleoside analog remdesivir (RDV) is a Food and Drug Administration–approved
antiviral for treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

Microfluidic bioprinting of tough hydrogel-based vascular conduits for functional blood vessels

D Wang, S Maharjan, X Kuang, Z Wang, LS Mille… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting of vascular tissues that are mechanically and
functionally comparable to their native counterparts is an unmet challenge. Here, we …

Evasion of type I interferon by SARS-CoV-2

H **a, Z Cao, X **e, X Zhang, JYC Chen, H Wang… - Cell reports, 2020‏ - cell.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) replication and host
immune response determine coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but studies evaluating …

SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier accompanied with basement membrane disruption without tight junctions alteration

L Zhang, L Zhou, L Bao, J Liu, H Zhu, Q Lv… - Signal transduction and …, 2021‏ - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to show a capacity for invading the brains of humans and
model animals. However, it remains unclear whether and how SARS-CoV-2 crosses the …

Pyrimidine inhibitors synergize with nucleoside analogues to block SARS-CoV-2

DC Schultz, RM Johnson, K Ayyanathan, J Miller… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has infected more than 261 million people and has led to more than
5 million deaths in the past year and a half (https://www. who. org/). Individuals with SARS …

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned

SJR da Silva, JCF do Nascimento… - ACS infectious …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible
and virulent human-infecting coronavirus that emerged in late December 2019 in Wuhan …

Mechanism and inhibition of the papain‐like protease, PLpro, of SARS‐CoV‐2

T Klemm, G Ebert, DJ Calleja, CC Allison… - The EMBO …, 2020‏ - embopress.org
The SARS‐CoV‐2 coronavirus encodes an essential papain‐like protease domain as part of
its non‐structural protein (nsp)‐3, namely SARS2 PLpro, that cleaves the viral polyprotein …