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 …

Non-coding RNAs in disease: from mechanisms to therapeutics

K Nemeth, R Bayraktar, M Ferracin… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are a heterogeneous group of transcripts that, by definition, are
not translated into proteins. Since their discovery, ncRNAs have emerged as important …

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2: open the door for novel therapies

W Yan, Y Zheng, X Zeng, B He, W Cheng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative
agent of the pandemic disease COVID-19, which is so far without efficacious treatment. The …

COVID-19 and cellular senescence

CA Schmitt, T Tchkonia, LJ Niedernhofer… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The clinical severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is largely determined by host
factors. Recent advances point to cellular senescence, an ageing-related switch in cellular …

SARS-CoV-2 infection induces DNA damage, through CHK1 degradation and impaired 53BP1 recruitment, and cellular senescence

U Gioia, S Tavella, P Martínez-Orellana, G Cicio… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the RNA virus
responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Although SARS-CoV-2 …

SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant: epidemiological features, biological characteristics, and clinical significance

Y Guo, J Han, Y Zhang, J He, W Yu, X Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B. 1.1529) variant was designated as a variant of concern (VOC)
by the World Health Organization (WHO) on November 26, 2021. Within two months, it had …

S-217622, a SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor, decreases viral load and ameliorates COVID-19 severity in hamsters

M Sasaki, K Tabata, M Kishimoto, Y Itakura… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
In parallel with vaccination, oral antiviral agents are highly anticipated to act as
countermeasures for the treatment of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic …

Small molecules in the treatment of COVID-19

S Lei, X Chen, J Wu, X Duan, K Men - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
The outbreak of COVID-19 has become a global crisis, and brought severe disruptions to
societies and economies. Until now, effective therapeutics against COVID-19 are in high …

Iterative computational design and crystallographic screening identifies potent inhibitors targeting the Nsp3 macrodomain of SARS-CoV-2

S Gahbauer, GJ Correy, M Schuller… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The nonstructural protein 3 (NSP3) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2
(SARS-CoV-2) contains a conserved macrodomain enzyme (Mac1) that is critical for …

Oral GS-441524 derivatives: Next-generation inhibitors of SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase

Z Wang, L Yang, X Song - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
GS-441524, an RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitor, is a 1′-CN-substituted
adenine C-nucleoside analog with broad-spectrum antiviral activity. However, the low oral …