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 …

High-resolution native mass spectrometry

S Tamara, MA den Boer, AJR Heck - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Native mass spectrometry (MS) involves the analysis and characterization of
macromolecules, predominantly intact proteins and protein complexes, whereby as much as …

X-ray screening identifies active site and allosteric inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease

S Günther, PYA Reinke, Y Fernández-García, J Lieske… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 is creating tremendous
human suffering. To date, no effective drug is available to directly treat the disease. In a …

Protein–small molecule interactions in native mass spectrometry

JL Bennett, GTH Nguyen, WA Donald - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Small molecule drug discovery has been propelled by the continual development of novel
scientific methodologies to occasion therapeutic advances. Although established …

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 …

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro and drug discovery

Y Duan, H Wang, Z Yuan, H Yang - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Since its outbreak in late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn enormous attention
worldwide as a consequence of being the most disastrous infectious disease in the past …

Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 M pro peptide inhibitors from modelling substrate and ligand binding

HTH Chan, MA Moesser, RK Walters, TR Malla… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The main protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2 is central to viral maturation and is a promising
drug target, but little is known about structural aspects of how it binds to its 11 natural …

Ultrafast one-minute electronic detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection by 3CLpro enzymatic activity in untreated saliva samples

E Borberg, E Granot, F Patolsky - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Since its onset in December 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-
CoV-2, has caused over 6.5 million deaths worldwide as of October 2022. Attempts to curb …

Protease-responsive peptide-conjugated mitochondrial-targeting AIEgens for selective imaging and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2-infected cells

Y Cheng, AE Clark, J Zhou, T He, Y Li, RM Borum… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a serious threat to
human health and lacks an effective treatment. There is an urgent need for both real-time …

[HTML][HTML] Viral proteases as therapeutic targets

T Majerová, J Konvalinka - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Some medically important viruses―including retroviruses, flaviviruses, coronaviruses, and
herpesviruses―code for a protease, which is indispensable for viral maturation and …