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 …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into SARS-CoV-2 genome, structure, evolution, pathogenesis and therapies: Structural genomics approach

AAT Naqvi, K Fatima, T Mohammad, U Fatima… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
The sudden emergence of severe respiratory disease, caused by a novel severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has recently become a public health …

Identification of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors targeting Mpro and PLpro using in-cell-protease assay

A Narayanan, M Narwal, SA Majowicz… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 proteases Mpro and PLpro are promising targets for antiviral drug
development. In this study, we present an antiviral screening strategy involving a novel in …

SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro mutations selected in a VSV-based system confer resistance to nirmatrelvir, ensitrelvir, and GC376

E Heilmann, F Costacurta, SA Moghadasi… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Protease inhibitors are among the most powerful antiviral drugs. Nirmatrelvir is the first
protease inhibitor specifically developed against the SARS-CoV-2 protease 3CLpro that has …

Masitinib is a broad coronavirus 3CL inhibitor that blocks replication of SARS-CoV-2

N Drayman, JK DeMarco, KA Jones, SA Azizi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
There is an urgent need for antiviral agents that treat severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We screened a library of 1900 clinically safe drugs …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of Mpro from SARS-CoV-2 and discovery of its inhibitors

Z Jin, X Du, Y Xu, Y Deng, M Liu, Y Zhao, B Zhang, X Li… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A new coronavirus, known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2), is the aetiological agent responsible for the 2019–2020 viral pneumonia outbreak of …

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 …

Boceprevir, GC-376, and calpain inhibitors II, XII inhibit SARS-CoV-2 viral replication by targeting the viral main protease

C Ma, MD Sacco, B Hurst, JA Townsend, Y Hu, T Szeto… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
A new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, also called novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV), started
to circulate among humans around December 2019, and it is now widespread as a global …

Structure-based design of antiviral drug candidates targeting the SARS-CoV-2 main protease

W Dai, B Zhang, XM Jiang, H Su, J Li, Y Zhao, X Xie… - Science, 2020 - science.org
SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is the etiological agent
responsible for the global COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak. The main …

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 …