[HTML][HTML] Protein structure-based in-silico approaches to drug discovery: Guide to COVID-19 therapeutics

Y Gupta, OV Savytskyi, M Coban, A Venugopal… - Molecular Aspects of …, 2023 - Elsevier
With more than 5 million fatalities and close to 300 million reported cases, COVID-19 is the
first documented pandemic due to a coronavirus that continues to be a major health …

[HTML][HTML] Medicinal chemistry strategies towards the development of non-covalent SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors

L Song, S Gao, B Ye, M Yang, Y Cheng, D Kang… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2024 - Elsevier
The main protease (M pro) of SARS-CoV-2 is an attractive target in anti-COVID-19 therapy
for its high conservation and major role in the virus life cycle. The covalent M pro inhibitor …

Exploring the binding mechanism of PF-07321332 SARS-CoV-2 protease inhibitor through molecular dynamics and binding free energy simulations

B Ahmad, M Batool, Q Ain, MS Kim, S Choi - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The novel coronavirus disease, caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2), rapidly spreading around the world, poses a major threat to the global public health …

Supervised Molecular Dynamics (SuMD) Insights into the mechanism of action of SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor PF-07321332

M Pavan, G Bolcato, D Bassani… - Journal of Enzyme …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The chemical structure of PF-07321332, the first orally available Covid-19 clinical candidate,
has recently been revealed by Pfizer. No information has been provided about the …

From the Wuhan-Hu-1 strain to the XD and XE variants: is targeting the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein still a pharmaceutically relevant option against COVID-19?

M Pavan, D Bassani, M Sturlese… - Journal of Enzyme …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2
genome has undergone several mutations. The emergence of such variants has resulted in …

Thermal titration molecular dynamics (TTMD): Not your usual post-docking refinement

S Menin, M Pavan, V Salmaso, M Sturlese… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking is one of the most widely used computational approaches in the field of
rational drug design, thanks to its favorable balance between the rapidity of execution and …

[HTML][HTML] In-silico investigation of phenolic compounds from leaves of Phillyrea angustifolia L. as a potential inhibitor against the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro …

A Boufissiou, M Abdalla, M Sharaf… - Journal of Saudi …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is currently a global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory
syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants. This highly contagious viral …

Targeting the I7L Protease: A Rational Design for Anti-Monkeypox Drugs?

A Dodaro, M Pavan, S Moro - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The latest monkeypox virus outbreak in 2022 showcased the potential threat of this viral
zoonosis to public health. The lack of specific treatments against this infection and the …

Lessons learnt from COVID-19: computational strategies for facing present and future pandemics

M Pavan, S Moro - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Since its outbreak in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of
more than 6.5 million people around the world. The high transmissibility of its causative …

Tafenoquine and its derivatives as inhibitors for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

Y Chen, WH Yang, HF Chen, LM Huang, JY Gao… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
has severely affected human lives around the world as well as the global economy …