Design and evaluation of a novel peptide–drug conjugate covalently targeting SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

N Liu, Y Zhang, Y Lei, R Wang, M Zhan… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a global health threat, was caused by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The SARS-CoV-2 papain …

Repurposing known drugs as covalent and non-covalent inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

P Delre, F Caporuscio, M Saviano… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In the absence of an approved vaccine, developing effective severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antivirals is essential to tackle the current pandemic …

Potential inhibitors targeting papain-like protease of SARS-CoV-2: two birds with one stone

H Jiang, P Yang, J Zhang - Frontiers in chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen of the
Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), is still devastating the world causing significant chaos …

Antiviral activity of natural phenolic compounds in complex at an allosteric site of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

V Srinivasan, H Brognaro, PR Prabhu… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease (PLpro) covers multiple functions. Beside the
cysteine-protease activity, facilitating cleavage of the viral polypeptide chain, PLpro has the …

Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease inhibitors through a combination of high-throughput screening and a FlipGFP-based reporter assay

C Ma, MD Sacco, Z Xia, G Lambrinidis… - ACS central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The papain-like protease (PLpro) of SARS-CoV-2 is a validated antiviral drug target.
Through a fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based high-throughput screening and …

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease in the postvaccine era

AT Ton, M Pandey, JR Smith, F Ban… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
While vaccines remain at the forefront of global healthcare responses, pioneering
therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2 are expected to fill the gaps for waning immunity. Rapid …

Drug repurposing for the SARS‐CoV‐2 papain‐like protease

CC Cho, SG Li, TJ Lalonde, KS Yang, G Yu… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As the pathogen of COVID‐19, SARS‐CoV‐2 encodes two essential cysteine proteases that
process the pathogen's two large polypeptide products pp1a and pp1ab in the human cell …

The complex structure of GRL0617 and SARS-CoV-2 PLpro reveals a hot spot for antiviral drug discovery

Z Fu, B Huang, J Tang, S Liu, M Liu, Y Ye, Z Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 is the pathogen responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The SARS-CoV-2
papain-like cysteine protease (PLpro) has been implicated in playing important roles in virus …

Repurposing clinically approved drugs for COVID-19 treatment targeting SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

Y Xu, K Chen, J Pan, Y Lei, D Zhang, L Fang… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 is a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, which has led to more than 4 million deaths
worldwide. As a result, there is a worldwide effort to develop specific drugs for targeting …

Validation and invalidation of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease inhibitors

C Ma, J Wang - ACS pharmacology & translational science, 2022 - ACS Publications
SARS-CoV-2 encodes two viral cysteine proteases, the main protease (Mpro) and the
papain-like protease (PLpro), both of which are validated antiviral drug targets. PLpro is …