COVID-19 therapeutics

D Focosi, M Franchini, F Maggi… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Since the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020, an unprecedented range of therapeutic options
has been studied and deployed. Healthcare providers have multiple treatment approaches …

Journey of remdesivir from the inhibition of hepatitis C virus to the treatment of COVID-19

T Cihlar, RL Mackman - Antiviral Therapy, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
If a planned path reaches a dead-end, one can simply stop. Or one can turn around, walk
back to the last intersection and take another path, or one can consider taking few paths in …

Nirmatrelvir and COVID-19: development, pharmacokinetics, clinical efficacy, resistance, relapse, and pharmacoeconomics

D Focosi, S McConnell, S Shoham… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (N/R) is one of the most effective antiviral drugs against SARS-
CoV-2. The preclinical development, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of N/R are …

[HTML][HTML] Determination of anti-SARS-CoV-2 virustatic pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment using high-performance liquid chromatography high-resolution mass …

I Bartels, M Jaeger, TC Schmidt - Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the global population since 2019. The rapid
development and approval of vaccines has brought relief. Yet, effective cures are still being …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging small molecule antivirals may fit neatly into COVID-19 treatment

C Fenton, SJ Keam - Drugs & Therapy Perspectives, 2022 - Springer
Numerous treatments exist for COVID-19, the illness caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus, although
most are not well established; among these are several small molecule antiviral agents …

Open science discovery of potent noncovalent SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors

ML Boby, D Fearon, M Ferla, M Filep, L Koekemoer… - Science, 2023 - science.org
We report the results of the COVID Moonshot, a fully open-science, crowdsourced, and
structure-enabled drug discovery campaign targeting the severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] In-vitro and in-vivo assessment of nirmatrelvir penetration into CSF, central nervous system cells, tissues, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells

SN Avedissian, JR Malik, AT Podany, M Neely… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
Three years after SARS-CoV-2 emerged as a global infectious threat, the virus has become
endemic. The neurological complications such as depression, anxiety, and other CNS …

A low-background, fluorescent assay to evaluate inhibitors of diverse viral proteases

RA Leonard, VN Rao, A Bartlett, HM Froggatt… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Multiple coronaviruses (CoVs) can cause respiratory diseases in humans. While
prophylactic vaccines designed to prevent infection are available for severe acute …

Enhanced compound-protein binding affinity prediction by representing protein multimodal information via a coevolutionary strategy

B Guo, H Zheng, H Jiang, X Li, N Guan… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Due to the lack of a method to efficiently represent the multimodal information of a protein,
including its structure and sequence information, predicting compound-protein binding …

Synthesis and Evaluation of 9-Aminoacridines with SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Activity

T Jones, N Monakhova, F Guivel-Benhassine… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
There have been relatively few small molecules developed with direct activity against the
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Two existing antimalarial …