Current trends in computer aided drug design and a highlight of drugs discovered via computational techniques: A review

VT Sabe, T Ntombela, LA Jhamba… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Computer-aided drug design (CADD) is one of the pivotal approaches to contemporary pre-
clinical drug discovery, and various computational techniques and software programs are …

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 …

The SARS‐CoV‐2 main protease (Mpro): Structure, function, and emerging therapies for COVID‐19

Q Hu, Y Xiong, GH Zhu, YN Zhang, YW Zhang… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The main proteases (Mpro), also termed 3‐chymotrypsin‐like proteases (3CLpro), are a
class of highly conserved cysteine hydrolases in β‐coronaviruses. Increasing evidence has …

Structure and function of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 main proteases and their inhibition: A comprehensive review

X Li, Y Song - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) identified in 2003
infected∼ 8000 people in 26 countries with 800 deaths, which was soon contained and …

Pharmacological inhibition of fatty acid synthesis blocks SARS-CoV-2 replication

J Chu, C Xing, Y Du, T Duan, S Liu, P Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), COVID-19 is a
virus-induced inflammatory disease of the airways and lungs that leads to severe multi …

SARS-CoV-2 Mpro: A Potential Target for Peptidomimetics and Small-Molecule Inhibitors

A Citarella, A Scala, A Piperno, N Micale - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The uncontrolled spread of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus SARS-
CoV-2 during 2020–2021 is one of the most devastating events in the history, with …

Targeting the main protease of SARS‐CoV‐2: from the establishment of high throughput screening to the design of tailored inhibitors

J Breidenbach, C Lemke, T Pillaiyar… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The main protease of SARS‐CoV‐2 (Mpro), the causative agent of COVID‐19, constitutes a
significant drug target. A new fluorogenic substrate was kinetically compared to an internally …

Planet: a multi-objective graph neural network model for protein–ligand binding affinity prediction

X Zhang, H Gao, H Wang, Z Chen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Predicting protein–ligand binding affinity is a central issue in drug design. Various deep
learning models have been published in recent years, where many of them rely on 3D …

Small‐Molecule Quenchers for Förster Resonance Energy Transfer: Structure, Mechanism, and Applications

B Fang, Y Shen, B Peng, H Bai, L Wang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For fluorogenic probes, Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is one of the most widely
used mechanisms to realize the detection of biochemical activities. Dark quenchers relax …

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease in the postvaccine era

AT Ton, M Pandey, JR Smith, F Ban… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
While vaccines remain at the forefront of global healthcare responses, pioneering
therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2 are expected to fill the gaps for waning immunity. Rapid …