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 …

Therapeutics for COVID-19

SS Toussi, JL Hammond, BS Gerstenberger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments to prevent severe coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) illness were available within a year of the pandemic being declared but there …

[HTML][HTML] Remdesivir, Molnupiravir and Nirmatrelvir remain active against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and other variants of concern

L Vangeel, W Chiu, S De Jonghe, P Maes, B Slechten… - Antiviral research, 2022 - Elsevier
We assessed the in vitro antiviral activity of remdesivir and its parent nucleoside GS-441524,
molnupiravir and its parent nucleoside EIDD-1931 and the viral protease inhibitor …

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned

SJR da Silva, JCF do Nascimento… - ACS infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible
and virulent human-infecting coronavirus that emerged in late December 2019 in Wuhan …

Molnupiravir and its antiviral activity against COVID-19

L Tian, Z Pang, M Li, F Lou, X An, S Zhu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) constitutes a major worldwide public health threat …

Molecular characteristics, immune evasion, and impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants

C Sun, C Xie, GL Bu, LY Zhong, MS Zeng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The persistent COVID-19 pandemic since 2020 has brought an enormous public health
burden to the global society and is accompanied by various evolution of the virus genome …

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 …

Therapeutic treatment with an oral prodrug of the remdesivir parental nucleoside is protective against SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis in mice

A Schäfer, DR Martinez, JJ Won, RM Meganck… - Science Translational …, 2022 - science.org
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remains uncontrolled despite the
rapid rollout of safe and effective severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …