COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 infection: lysosomes and lysosomotropism implicate new treatment strategies and personal risks

M Blaess, L Kaiser, M Sauer, R Csuk… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In line with SARS and MERS, the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic is one of the largest
challenges in medicine and health care worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 infection/COVID-19 …

Potential antiviral strategy exploiting dependence of SARS-CoV-2 replication on lysosome-based pathway

Y Lan, W He, G Wang, Z Wang, Y Chen, F Gao… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The recent novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) outbreak created a severe
public health burden worldwide. Unfortunately, the SARS-CoV-2 variant is still spreading at …

The SARS-CoV-2 cytopathic effect is blocked by lysosome alkalizing small molecules

K Gorshkov, CZ Chen, R Bostwick… - ACS infectious …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Understanding the SARS-CoV-2 virus' pathways of infection, virus–host–protein interactions,
and mechanisms of virus-induced cytopathic effects will greatly aid in the discovery and …

Widely available lysosome targeting agents should be considered as potential therapy for COVID-19

J Homolak, I Kodvanj - International journal of antimicrobial agents, 2020 - Elsevier
While the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic advances, the scientific
community continues to struggle in the search for treatments. Several improvements have …

Lysosome activation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and prognostic significance of circulating LC3B in COVID-19

S Fang, L Zhang, Y Liu, W Xu, W Wu… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly worldwide, causing
significant mortality. There is a mechanistic relationship between intracellular coronavirus …

Amantadine disrupts lysosomal gene expression; potential therapy for COVID19

SP Smieszek, BP Przychodzen, MH Polymeropoulos - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
SARS-coronavirus 2 is the causal agent of the COVID-19 outbreak. SARS-Cov-2 entry into a
cell is dependent upon binding of the viral spike (S) protein to cellular receptor and on …

[HTML][HTML] Existing highly accumulating lysosomotropic drugs with potential for repurposing to target COVID-19

U Norinder, A Tuck, K Norgren, VM Kos - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Given the speed of viral infection spread, repurposing of existing drugs has been given the
highest priority in combating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Only drugs that are already …

Amantadine disrupts lysosomal gene expression: A hypothesis for COVID19 treatment

SP Smieszek, BP Przychodzen… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
SARS-coronavirus 2 is the causal agent of the COVID-19 outbreak. SARS-Cov-2 entry into a
cell is dependent upon binding of the viral spike (S) protein to cellular receptor and on …

[HTML][HTML] The lysosome: a potential juncture between SARS‐CoV‐2 infectivity and Niemann‐Pick disease type C, with therapeutic implications

RA Ballout, D Sviridov, MI Bukrinsky… - The FASEB …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Drug repurposing is potentially the fastest available option in the race to identify safe and
efficacious drugs that can be used to prevent and/or treat COVID‐19. By describing the life …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the endocytic pathway and autophagy process as a novel therapeutic strategy in COVID-19

N Yang, HM Shen - International journal of biological sciences, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a group of enveloped, single-stranded positive genomic RNA
viruses and some of them are known to cause severe respiratory diseases in human …