SARS-CoV-2 antiviral therapy

K Tao, PL Tzou, J Nouhin, H Bonilla… - Clinical microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The development of effective antiviral therapy for COVID-19 is critical for those awaiting
vaccination, as well as for those who do not respond robustly to vaccination. This review …

SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase as a therapeutic target for COVID-19

I Vicenti, M Zazzi, F Saladini - Expert Opinion on Therapeutic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: The current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic urgently demands for both
prevention and treatment strategies. RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase (RdRp), which has …

β-d-N4-hydroxycytidine Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Through Lethal Mutagenesis But Is Also Mutagenic To Mammalian Cells

S Zhou, CS Hill, S Sarkar, LV Tse… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Mutagenic ribonucleosides can act as broad-based antiviral agents. They are metabolized
to the active ribonucleoside triphosphate form and concentrate in genomes of RNA viruses …

Baicalein and baicalin inhibit SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent-RNA polymerase

K Zandi, K Musall, A Oo, D Cao, B Liang… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a deadly emerging infectious disease caused by
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Because SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine on nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 viral load burden amongst outpatients with COVID-19: a pilot …

JJ Parienti, T Prazuck, L Peyro-Saint-Paul… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Tenofovir and emtricitabine interfere with the SARS CoV-2 ribonucleic acid
(RNA)-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). Several cohorts reported that people treated by …

Recent drug development and medicinal chemistry approaches for the treatment of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and COVID‐19

AK Ghosh, JL Mishevich, A Mesecar… - ChemMedChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract COVID‐19, caused by SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, continues to be a major public
health crisis around the globe. Development of vaccines and the first cluster of antiviral …

Nucleoside analogs and nucleoside precursors as drugs in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses

N Borbone, G Piccialli, GN Roviello, G Oliviero - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are positive-sense RNA enveloped viruses, members of the family
Coronaviridae, that cause infections in a broad range of mammals including humans …

[HTML][HTML] A robust SARS-CoV-2 replication model in primary human epithelial cells at the air liquid interface to assess antiviral agents

TND Do, K Donckers, L Vangeel, AK Chatterjee… - Antiviral research, 2021 - Elsevier
There are, besides remdesivir, no approved antivirals for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2
infections. To aid in the search for antivirals against this virus, we explored the use of human …

Drug repurposing against SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV

S Aherfi, B Pradines, C Devaux, S Honore… - Future …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, large in silico screening studies and
numerous in vitro studies have assessed the antiviral activity of various drugs on SARS-CoV …

Tenofovir, another inexpensive, well-known and widely available old drug repurposed for SARS-COV-2 infection

I Zanella, D Zizioli, F Castelli, E Quiros-Roldan - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is spreading
worldwide with different clinical manifestations. Age and comorbidities may explain severity …