Structure-based design, synthesis, and evaluation of peptide-mimetic SARS 3CL protease inhibitors

K Akaji, H Konno, H Mitsui, K Teruya… - Journal of medicinal …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The design and evaluation of low molecular weight peptide-based severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS) chymotrypsin-like protease (3CL) protease inhibitors are described. A …

Recognition of divergent viral substrates by the SARS-CoV-2 main protease

EA MacDonald, G Frey, MN Namchuk… - ACS infectious …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The main protease (Mpro) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2), the cause of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is an ideal target for pharmaceutical …

An extended conformation of SARS-CoV-2 main protease reveals allosteric targets

Z Sun, L Wang, X Li, C Fan, J Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The coronavirus main protease (Mpro) is required for viral replication and has enzymatical
activity as a homodimer. Thus, targeting its dimerization is an effective strategy for …

Crystal structures of the main peptidase from the SARS coronavirus inhibited by a substrate-like aza-peptide epoxide

TW Lee, MM Cherney, C Huitema, J Liu… - Journal of molecular …, 2005 - Elsevier
The main peptidase (Mpro) from the coronavirus (CoV) causing severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS) is one of the most attractive molecular targets for the development of anti …

Structure-based design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of peptidomimetic SARS-CoV 3CLpro inhibitors

AK Ghosh, K Xi, V Grum-Tokars, X Xu, K Ratia… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2007 - Elsevier
Structure-based design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of a series of peptidomimetic
severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus chymotrypsin-like protease inhibitors are …

Ligand-induced dimerization of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus nsp5 protease (3CLpro): implications for nsp5 regulation and the development …

S Tomar, ML Johnston, SES John, HL Osswald… - Journal of Biological …, 2015 - ASBMB
All coronaviruses, including the recently emerged Middle East respiratory syndrome
coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from the β-CoV subgroup, require the proteolytic activity of the …

The SARS-coronavirus papain-like protease: structure, function and inhibition by designed antiviral compounds

YM Báez-Santos, SES John, AD Mesecar - Antiviral research, 2015 - Elsevier
Over 10 years have passed since the deadly human coronavirus that causes severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) emerged from the Guangdong Province of China …

Review on development of potential inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (MPro)

SG Katre, AJ Asnani, K Pratyush, NG Sakharkar… - Future Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background The etiological agent for the coronavirus illness outbreak in 2019–2020 is a
novel coronavirus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV …

Activity profiling and structures of inhibitor-bound SARS-CoV-2-PLpro protease provides a framework for anti-COVID-19 drug design

W Rut, Z Lv, M Zmudzinski, S Patchett, D Nayak… - biorxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
In December 2019, the first cases of a novel coronavirus infection causing COVID-19 were
diagnosed in Wuhan, China. Viral Papain-Like cysteine protease (PLpro, NSP3) is essential …

Dynamic Profiling of β-Coronavirus 3CL Mpro Protease Ligand-Binding Sites

E Cho, M Rosa, R Anjum, S Mehmood… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
β-coronavirus (CoVs) alone has been responsible for three major global outbreaks in the
21st century. The current crisis has led to an urgent requirement to develop therapeutics …