Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2: open the door for novel therapies

W Yan, Y Zheng, X Zeng, B He, W Cheng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative
agent of the pandemic disease COVID-19, which is so far without efficacious treatment. The …

Inhalation delivery of dexamethasone with iSEND nanoparticles attenuates the COVID-19 cytokine storm in mice and nonhuman primates

QF Meng, W Tai, M Tian, X Zhuang, Y Pan, J Lai… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Dexamethasone (DEX) is the first drug to show life-saving efficacy in patients with severe
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), while DEX is associated with serious adverse …

Structural basis for replicase polyprotein cleavage and substrate specificity of main protease from SARS-CoV-2

Y Zhao, Y Zhu, X Liu, Z Jin, Y Duan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The main protease (M pro) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) is a key enzyme, which extensively digests CoV replicase polyproteins essential for viral …

An orally available Mpro inhibitor is effective against wild-type SARS-CoV-2 and variants including Omicron

BX Quan, H Shuai, AJ Xia, Y Hou, R Zeng, XL Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to cause waves of new infections globally.
Developing effective antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants is an urgent task. The …

A novel STING agonist-adjuvanted pan-sarbecovirus vaccine elicits potent and durable neutralizing antibody and T cell responses in mice, rabbits and NHPs

Z Liu, J Zhou, W Xu, W Deng, Y Wang, M Wang… - Cell research, 2022 - nature.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants and potentially other highly pathogenic
sarbecoviruses in the future highlights the need for pan-sarbecovirus vaccines. Here, we …

Recent trends and advancements in electrochemiluminescence biosensors for human virus detection

E Sobhanie, F Salehnia, G Xu, Y Hamidipanah… - TrAC Trends in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Researchers are constantly looking to find new techniques of virus detection that are
sensitive, cost-effective, and accurate. Additionally, they can be used as a point-of-care …

A new generation Mpro inhibitor with potent activity against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants

C Huang, H Shuai, J Qiao, Y Hou, R Zeng… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, particularly the Omicron variant and its
sublineages, continually threaten the global public health. Small molecule antivirals are an …

Potential cross-species transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 subtype (HPAI H5) viruses to humans calls for the development of H5-specific and …

P Huang, L Sun, J Li, Q Wu, N Rezaei, S Jiang, C Pan - Cell discovery, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 subtype (HPAI H5) viruses have been
prevalent around the world in both avian and mammalian species, causing serious …

The state of the art of PROTAC technologies for drug discovery

C Wang, C Zheng, H Wang, L Zhang, Z Liu… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein degradation technology has progressed dramatically since 2001 when proteolysis
targeting chimera (PROTAC) was first reported. Various of distinctive degradation …