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 …

Accelerating antiviral drug discovery: lessons from COVID-19

A von Delft, MD Hall, AD Kwong, LA Purcell… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a wave of rapid and
collaborative drug discovery efforts took place in academia and industry, culminating in …

Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants with resistance to clinical protease inhibitors

SA Moghadasi, E Heilmann, AM Khalil, C Nnabuife… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Vaccines and drugs have helped reduce disease severity and blunt the spread of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, ongoing virus …

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 …

A critical overview of computational approaches employed for COVID-19 drug discovery

EN Muratov, R Amaro, CH Andrade, N Brown… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
COVID-19 has resulted in huge numbers of infections and deaths worldwide and brought
the most severe disruptions to societies and economies since the Great Depression …

Bench-to-bedside: Innovation of small molecule anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs in China

L Yang, Z Wang - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of deaths globally, highlighting
the need to develop potent prophylactic and therapeutic strategies against SARS-CoV-2 …

Structure-based de novo drug design using 3D deep generative models

Y Li, J Pei, L Lai - Chemical science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Deep generative models are attracting much attention in the field of de novo molecule
design. Compared to traditional methods, deep generative models can be trained in a fully …

Covalent narlaprevir-and boceprevir-derived hybrid inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease

DW Kneller, H Li, G Phillips, KL Weiss, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to threaten the effectiveness of COVID-19
vaccines, and small-molecule antivirals can provide an important therapeutic treatment …

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 …

X-ray crystallographic characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease polyprotein cleavage sites essential for viral processing and maturation

J Lee, C Kenward, LJ Worrall, M Vuckovic… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen
that causes COVID-19, produces polyproteins 1a and 1ab that contain, respectively, 11 or …