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 …

Advances in covalent drug discovery

L Boike, NJ Henning, DK Nomura - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Covalent drugs have been used to treat diseases for more than a century, but tools that
facilitate the rational design of covalent drugs have emerged more recently. The purposeful …

Discovery of S-217622, a noncovalent oral SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease inhibitor clinical candidate for treating COVID-19

Y Unoh, S Uehara, K Nakahara, H Nobori… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in millions of deaths and threatens …

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 and implications for therapeutic development

H Yang, Z Rao - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), is an unprecedented global health crisis. However, therapeutic options for …

An oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitor clinical candidate for the treatment of COVID-19

DR Owen, CMN Allerton, AS Anderson… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global pandemic. Alongside vaccines, antiviral …

Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants with resistance to clinical protease inhibitors

SA Moghadasi, E Heilmann, AM Khalil, C Nnabuife… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Vaccines and drugs have helped reduce disease severity and blunt the spread of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, ongoing virus …

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 …

The SARS‐CoV‐2 main protease (Mpro): Structure, function, and emerging therapies for COVID‐19

Q Hu, Y Xiong, GH Zhu, YN Zhang, YW Zhang… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The main proteases (Mpro), also termed 3‐chymotrypsin‐like proteases (3CLpro), are a
class of highly conserved cysteine hydrolases in β‐coronaviruses. Increasing evidence has …

Structural basis for replicase polyprotein cleavage and substrate specificity of main protease from SARS-CoV-2

Y Zhao, Y Zhu, X Liu, Z Jin, Y Duan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The main protease (M pro) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) is a key enzyme, which extensively digests CoV replicase polyproteins essential for viral …

Bench-to-bedside: Innovation of small molecule anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs in China

L Yang, Z Wang - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of deaths globally, highlighting
the need to develop potent prophylactic and therapeutic strategies against SARS-CoV-2 …