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 …

An expanded lexicon for the ubiquitin code

I Dikic, BA Schulman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of the ubiquitin code has greatly evolved from conventional E1, E2 and
E3 enzymes that modify Lys residues on specific substrates with a single type of ubiquitin …

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 …

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 …

Identification of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors targeting Mpro and PLpro using in-cell-protease assay

A Narayanan, M Narwal, SA Majowicz… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 proteases Mpro and PLpro are promising targets for antiviral drug
development. In this study, we present an antiviral screening strategy involving a novel in …

Structural insights into SARS-CoV-2 proteins

R Arya, S Kumari, B Pandey, H Mistry, SC Bihani… - Journal of molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
The unprecedented scale of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed an intense
effort of the global scientific community to unravel different aspects of the disease in a short …

Deubiquitinases: From mechanisms to their inhibition by small molecules

SM Lange, LA Armstrong, Y Kulathu - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Deubiquitinases (DUBs) are specialized proteases that remove ubiquitin from substrates or
cleave within ubiquitin chains to regulate ubiquitylation and therefore play important roles in …

A critical overview of computational approaches employed for COVID-19 drug discovery

EN Muratov, R Amaro, CH Andrade, N Brown… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
COVID-19 has resulted in huge numbers of infections and deaths worldwide and brought
the most severe disruptions to societies and economies since the Great Depression …

Progress and challenges in targeting the SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

H Tan, Y Hu, P Jadhav, B Tan… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The approval of vaccines
and small-molecule antivirals is vital in combating the pandemic. The viral polymerase …

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 …