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 …

Small molecules in the treatment of COVID-19

S Lei, X Chen, J Wu, X Duan, K Men - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
The outbreak of COVID-19 has become a global crisis, and brought severe disruptions to
societies and economies. Until now, effective therapeutics against COVID-19 are in high …

A TMPRSS2 inhibitor acts as a pan-SARS-CoV-2 prophylactic and therapeutic

T Shapira, IA Monreal, SP Dion, DW Buchholz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus remains a global public health
crisis. Although widespread vaccination campaigns are underway, their efficacy is reduced …

The transmembrane protease TMPRSS2 as a therapeutic target for COVID-19 treatment

L Wettstein, F Kirchhoff, J Münch - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
TMPRSS2 is a type II transmembrane protease with broad expression in epithelial cells of
the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract, the prostate, and other organs. Although the …

[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 …

D3AI-CoV: a deep learning platform for predicting drug targets and for virtual screening against COVID-19

Y Yang, D Zhou, X Zhang, Y Shi, J Han… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Target prediction and virtual screening are two powerful tools of computer-aided drug
design. Target identification is of great significance for hit discovery, lead optimization, drug …

Calpains as mechanistic drivers and therapeutic targets for ocular disease

JT Vu, E Wang, J Wu, YJ Sun, G Velez… - Trends in molecular …, 2022 - cell.com
Ophthalmic neurodegenerative diseases encompass a wide array of molecular pathologies
unified by calpain dysregulation. Calpains are calcium-dependent proteases that perpetuate …

A Micronemal Protein, Scot1, Is Essential for Apicoplast Biogenesis and Liver Stage Development in Plasmodium berghei

A Ghosh, A Mishra, R Devi, SK Narwal… - ACS Infectious …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Plasmodium sporozoites invade hepatocytes, transform into liver stages, and replicate into
thousands of merozoites that infect erythrocytes and cause malaria. Proteins secreted from …

BC‐11 is a covalent TMPRSS2 fragment inhibitor that impedes SARS‐CoV‐2 host cell entry

AFA Moumbock, HTT Tran, E Lamy… - Archiv der …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Host cell entry of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is
facilitated via priming of its spike glycoprotein by the human transmembrane protease serine …

Evaluating the effect of SARS-Cov-2 infection on prognosis and mortality in patients with acute pancreatitis

R Karaali, F Topal - The American journal of emergency medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Acute pancreatitis (AP) is the leading cause of hospitalization among
gastrointestinal disorders. The aim of our study is to compare the results between AP …