Anti-HCV, nucleotide inhibitors, repurposing against COVID-19

AA Elfiky - Life sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Aims A newly emerged Human Coronavirus (HCoV) is reported two months ago in Wuhan,
China (COVID-19). Until today> 2700 deaths from the 80,000 confirmed cases reported …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatitis C virus NS5A inhibitors and drug resistance mutations

S Nakamoto, T Kanda, S Wu, H Shirasawa… - World journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Some direct-acting antiviral agents for hepatitis C virus (HCV), such as telaprevir and
boceprevir have been available since 2011. It was reported that HCV NS5A is associated …

Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase as a potential therapeutic drug target using a computational approach

SO Aftab, MZ Ghouri, MU Masood, Z Haider… - Journal of translational …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) outbreak originating in Wuhan, China, has raised global health concerns and the …

Approaches to hepatitis C treatment and cure using NS5A inhibitors

JJ Kohler, JH Nettles, F Amblard… - Infection and drug …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Recent progress in the understanding of hepatitis C virus (HCV) biology and the availability
of in vitro models to study its replication have facilitated the development of direct-acting …

Repurposing therapeutics for COVID-19: Rapid prediction of commercially available drugs through machine learning and docking

S Mohapatra, P Nath, M Chatterjee, N Das, D Kalita… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19, caused by the SARS-
CoV-2 virus has spread rapidly around the globe during the past 3 months. As the virus …

Novel guanosine derivatives against MERS CoV polymerase: An in silico perspective

AA Elfiky, EB Azzam - Journal of Biomolecular Structure and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS CoV), also termed
camel flu, is a new viral infection that first reported in the year 2012 in the Middle East region …

Quantitative structure‐activity relationship and molecular docking revealed a potency of anti‐hepatitis C virus drugs against human corona viruses

AA Elfiky, SM Mahdy… - Journal of medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A number of human coronaviruses (HCoVs) were reported in the last and present centuries.
Some outbreaks of which (eg, SARS and MERS CoVs) caused the mortality of hundreds of …

The small molecules AZD0530 and dasatinib inhibit dengue virus RNA replication via Fyn kinase

M de Wispelaere, AJ LaCroix, PL Yang - Journal of virology, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
In this study, we characterized the antiviral mechanism of action of AZD0530 and dasatinib,
two pharmacological inhibitors of host kinases, that also inhibit dengue virus (DV) infection …

Remdesivir and ledipasvir among the FDA-approved antiviral drugs have potential to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication

RH Pirzada, M Haseeb, M Batool, MS Kim, S Choi - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
The rapid spread of the virus, the surge in the number of deaths, and the unavailability of
specific SARS-CoV-2 drugs thus far necessitate the identification of drugs with anti-COVID …

Molecular dynamics and docking reveal the potency of novel GTP derivatives against RNA dependent RNA polymerase of genotype 4a HCV

AA Elfiky, A Ismail - Life sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Aim To work on Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), one of the major causes of liver cirrhosis
and hepatocellular carcinoma, polymerase of genotype 4a that have no solved structures …