Structural basis of potential inhibitors targeting SARS-CoV-2 main protease

HM Mengist, T Dilnessa, T Jin - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic is still devastating the world causing
significant social, economic, and political chaos. Corresponding to the absence of globally …

Seaweed phenolics: From extraction to applications

J Cotas, A Leandro, P Monteiro, D Pacheco… - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Seaweeds have attracted high interest in recent years due to their chemical and bioactive
properties to find new molecules with valuable applications for humankind. Phenolic …

COCONUT online: collection of open natural products database

M Sorokina, P Merseburger, K Rajan, MA Yirik… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Natural products (NPs) are small molecules produced by living organisms with potential
applications in pharmacology and other industries as many of them are bioactive. This …

An updated review of computer‐aided drug design and its application to COVID‐19

AB Gurung, MA Ali, J Lee, MA Farah… - BioMed research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The recent outbreak of the deadly coronavirus disease 19 (COVID‐19) pandemic poses
serious health concerns around the world. The lack of approved drugs or vaccines continues …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular docking, validation, dynamics simulations, and pharmacokinetic prediction of natural compounds against the SARS-CoV-2 main-protease

C Shivanika, D Kumar, V Ragunathan… - … structure & dynamics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The study aims to evaluate the potency of two hundred natural antiviral phytocompounds
against the active site of the Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus− 2 (SARS …

Essential oils as antiviral agents, potential of essential oils to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection: an in-silico investigation

JKR Da Silva, PLB Figueiredo, KG Byler… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Essential oils have shown promise as antiviral agents against several pathogenic viruses. In
this work we hypothesized that essential oil components may interact with key protein …

Potential SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors

R Banerjee, L Perera, LMV Tillekeratne - Drug Discovery Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•The SARS-CoV-2 main protease is a prime drug target.•Coronavirus main
proteases share a structurally conserved substrate-binding region.•The structure and …

[HTML][HTML] Phytochemicals containing biologically active polyphenols as an effective agent against Covid-19-inducing coronavirus

K Chojnacka, A Witek-Krowiak, D Skrzypczak… - Journal of Functional …, 2020 - Elsevier
The outbreak of Covid-19 disease caused by SARS-CoV-19, along with the lack of targeted
medicaments and vaccines, forced the scientific world to search for new antiviral …

Identification of phytochemical inhibitors against main protease of COVID-19 using molecular modeling approaches

A Kumar, G Choudhir, SK Shukla… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel corona virus that
causes corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The COVID-19 rapidly spread across the …

Natural products' role against COVID-19

A da Silva Antonio, LSM Wiedemann… - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
COVID-19 is a viral disease caused by a new severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-
CoV-2), which has quickly resulted in a pandemic. As a great threat to global public health …