Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 and implications for therapeutic development

H Yang, Z Rao - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), is an unprecedented global health crisis. However, therapeutic options for …

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 …

Structural insights into SARS-CoV-2 proteins

R Arya, S Kumari, B Pandey, H Mistry, SC Bihani… - Journal of molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
The unprecedented scale of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed an intense
effort of the global scientific community to unravel different aspects of the disease in a short …

Activity profiling and crystal structures of inhibitor-bound SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease: A framework for anti–COVID-19 drug design

W Rut, Z Lv, M Zmudzinski, S Patchett, D Nayak… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Viral papain-like cysteine protease (PLpro, NSP3) is essential for SARS-CoV-2 replication
and represents a promising target for the development of antiviral drugs. Here, we used a …

Structure of papain-like protease from SARS-CoV-2 and its complexes with non-covalent inhibitors

J Osipiuk, SA Azizi, S Dvorkin, M Endres… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) continues to expand. Papain-like protease (PLpro) is one of two SARS-CoV-2 proteases …

A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing

DE Gordon, GM Jang, M Bouhaddou, J Xu, K Obernier… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A newly described coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), which is the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has …

SARS-CoV-2 nsp13, nsp14, nsp15 and orf6 function as potent interferon antagonists

CK Yuen, JY Lam, WM Wong, LF Mak… - Emerging microbes & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by the novel SARS-
CoV-2 virus, is now causing a tremendous global health concern. Since its first appearance …

Drug targets for corona virus: A systematic review

M Prajapat, P Sarma, N Shekhar, P Avti… - Indian journal of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The 2019-novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a major source of disaster in the 21 th
century. However, the lack of specific drugs to prevent/treat an attack is a major need at this …

Critical determinants of cytokine storm and type I interferon response in COVID-19 pathogenesis

S Ramasamy, S Subbian - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), a rapidly evolving pandemic worldwide with at least 68 million …

Mechanism and inhibition of the papain‐like protease, PLpro, of SARS‐CoV‐2

T Klemm, G Ebert, DJ Calleja, CC Allison… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
The SARS‐CoV‐2 coronavirus encodes an essential papain‐like protease domain as part of
its non‐structural protein (nsp)‐3, namely SARS2 PLpro, that cleaves the viral polyprotein …