As more antibiotics are rendered ineffective by drug-resistant bacteria, focus must be shifted
towards alternative therapies for treating infections. Although several alternatives already …

The global coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has affected more than 140 million and
killed more than 3 million people worldwide as of April 20, 2021. The novel human severe …

Among the myriad infectious disease threats humans face from bacteria, prions, parasites,
protozoa, fungi, ectoparasites, and viruses, it is viral infections that arguably constitute the …

Cardiac glycosides (CGs) have a long history of treating cardiac diseases. However, recent
reports have suggested that CGs also possess anticancer and antiviral activities. The …

SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus currently causing a pandemic. We show that the
majority of amino acid positions, which differ between SARS-CoV-2 and the closely related …

Introduction Coronavirus disease 2019 is an infectious disease caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which enters host cells through the cell …

Emerging viruses are a major threat to human health. Recent outbreaks have emphasized
the urgent need for new antiviral treatments. For several pathogenic viruses, considerable …

N-glycosylation is one of the most important posttranslational modifications of proteins. It
plays important roles in the biogenesis and functions of proteins by influencing their folding …

Since being first described more than 60 years ago, Na, K-ATPase has been extensively
studied, while novel concepts about its structure, physiology, and biological roles continue to …

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has raised a health crisis worldwide. The high morbidity
and mortality associated with COVID-19 and the lack of effective drugs or vaccines for SARS …