Picornavirus 3C–a protease ensuring virus replication and subverting host responses

J Yi, J Peng, W Yang, G Zhu, J Ren, D Li… - Journal of cell …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
The protease 3C is encoded by all known picornaviruses, and the structural features related
to its protease and RNA-binding activities are conserved; these contribute to the cleavage of …

Picornavirus 3C Proteins Intervene in Host Cell Processes through Proteolysis and Interactions with RNA

S Mondal, G Sarvari, DD Boehr - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Picornaviridae family comprises a large group of non-enveloped viruses with enormous
impact on human and animal health. The picornaviral genome contains one open reading …

Oligomers of hepatitis A virus (HAV) capsid protein VP1 generated in a heterologous expression system

A Nain, M Kumar, M Banerjee - Microbial Cell Factories, 2022 - Springer
Background The quasi-enveloped picornavirus, Hepatitis A Virus (HAV), causes acute
hepatitis in humans and infects approximately 1.5 million individuals a year, which does not …

Evaluation of Potential Anti-Hepatitis A Virus 3C Protease Inhibitors Using Molecular Docking

R Sasaki-Tanaka, KC Nagulapalli Venkata… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is a major cause of acute hepatitis worldwide and
occasionally causes acute liver failure and can lead to death in the absence of liver …

Cell culture systems and drug targets for hepatitis A virus infection

T Kanda, R Sasaki, R Masuzaki, N Matsumoto… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is one of the major causes of acute hepatitis, and this
infection occasionally causes acute liver failure. HAV infection is associated with HAV …

Antiviral therapeutics directed against RNA dependent RNA polymerases from positive-sense viruses

S Bhatia, N Narayanan, S Nagpal, DT Nair - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Viruses with positive-sense single stranded RNA (+ ssRNA) genomes are responsible for
different diseases and represent a global health problem. In addition to developing new …

Novel flavonoid hybrids as potent antiviral agents against hepatitis A: Design, synthesis and biological evaluation

S Shi, X Zheng, R Suzuki, Z Li, T Shiota, J Wang… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Two series of flavonoid hybrids, totaling 42 compounds, were designed, synthesized and
evaluated to develop antiviral compounds effective against hepatitis A virus (HAV). A …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis for catalysis and substrate specificity of a 3C-like cysteine protease from a mosquito mesonivirus

M Kanitz, S Blanck, A Heine, AA Gulyaeva… - Virology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cavally virus (CavV) is a mosquito-borne plus-strand RNA virus in the family Mesoniviridae
(order Nidovirales). We present X-ray structures for the CavV 3C-like protease (3CL pro), as …

Synthesis, spectral investigation, thermal, molecular modeling and bio-molecular docking studies of a thiazole derived chalcone and its metal complexes

J Johnson, A Yardily - Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A thiazole-based chalconoid ligand (E)-3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1-(thiazol-2-yl) prop-2-en-1-
one (HPTP) and its Co (II), Ni (II), Cu (II) and Zn (II) complexes have been synthesized. The …

A comprehensive automated computer-aided discovery pipeline from genomes to hit molecules

R Bhat, R Kaushik, A Singh, D DasGupta… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Big data generation through sequencing of genomes and proteomes has led to over
thousands of whole genomes and millions of protein sequences. However, utilization of this …