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 …

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 …

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 main protease for treatment of COVID-19: covalent inhibitors structure–activity relationship insights and evolution perspectives

G La Monica, A Bono, A Lauria… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The viral main protease is one of the most attractive targets among all key enzymes involved
in the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle. Covalent inhibition of the cysteine145 of SARS-CoV-2 MPRO …

Recent advances in SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors: from nirmatrelvir to future perspectives

A Citarella, A Dimasi, D Moi, D Passarella, A Scala… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The main protease (Mpro) plays a pivotal role in the replication of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and is considered a highly conserved viral target …

Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Linked Bis-Heterocycles─ Synthesis and Investigation of Photophysical Properties

R Arora, B Mirabi, AG Durant… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A palladium-catalyzed domino C–N coupling/Cacchi reaction is reported. Design of
photoluminescent bis-heterocycles, aided by density functional theory calculations, was …

Scalable hybrid deep neural networks/polarizable potentials biomolecular simulations including long-range effects

TJ Inizan, T Plé, O Adjoua, P Ren, H Gökcan… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Deep-HP is a scalable extension of the Tinker-HP multi-GPU molecular dynamics (MD)
package enabling the use of Pytorch/TensorFlow Deep Neural Network (DNN) models …

Computation of absolute binding free energies for noncovalent inhibitors with SARS-CoV-2 main protease

MM Ghahremanpour, A Saar… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Accurate, routine calculation of absolute binding free energies (ABFEs) for protein–ligand
complexes remains a key goal of computer-aided drug design since it can enable screening …

Synthesis of SARS-CoV-2 M pro inhibitors bearing a cinnamic ester warhead with in vitro activity against human coronaviruses

A Citarella, D Moi, M Pedrini, H Pérez-Peña… - Organic & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
COVID-19 now ranks among the most devastating global pandemics in history. The
causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, is a new human coronavirus (hCoV) that spreads among …

Force-field-enhanced neural network interactions: from local equivariant embedding to atom-in-molecule properties and long-range effects

T Plé, L Lagardère, JP Piquemal - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We introduce FENNIX (Force-Field-Enhanced Neural Network InteraXions), a hybrid
approach between machine-learning and force-fields. We leverage state-of-the-art …

Dynamical nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations identify allosteric sites and positions associated with drug resistance in the SARS-CoV-2 main protease

HTH Chan, ASF Oliveira, CJ Schofield, AJ Mulholland… - Jacs Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
The SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) plays an essential role in the coronavirus lifecycle
by catalyzing hydrolysis of the viral polyproteins at specific sites. Mpro is the target of drugs …