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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2020

Repositioning of 8565 Existing Drugs for COVID-19.

Kaifu Gao, Duc Duy Nguyen, Jiahui Chen, Rui Wang, Guo-Wei Wei

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. AΙ-Driven Drug Repurposing: Applications and Challenges.Medicines (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  11. Potential Drugs in COVID-19 Management.Current medicinal chemistry · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Kaifu GaoDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Duc Duy NguyenDepartment of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5921-8851
Jiahui ChenDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Rui WangDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Guo-Wei WeiDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5781-2937

Funding

Synergistic integration of topology and machine learning for the predictions of protein-ligand binding affinities and mutation impactsR01GM126189 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WEI, GUOWEI · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected over 7.1 million people and led to over 0.4 million deaths. Currently, there is no specific anti-SARS-CoV-2 medication. New drug discovery typically takes more than 10 years. Drug repositioning becomes one of the most feasible approaches for combating COVID-19. This work curates the largest available experimental data set for SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-CoV 3CL (main) protease inhibitors. On the basis of this data set, we develop validated machine learning models with relatively low root-mean-square error to screen 1553 FDA-approved drugs as well as another 7012 investigational or off-market drugs in DrugBank. We found that many existing drugs might be potentially potent to SARS-CoV-2. The druggability of many potent SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease inhibitors is analyzed. This work offers a foundation for further experimental studies of COVID-19 drug repositioning.

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Drug RepositioningAntiviral AgentsBetacoronavirusCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentCysteine EndopeptidasesCysteine Proteinase InhibitorsDatabases, ProteinHumansMachine LearningPandemicsPneumonia, ViralProtein BindingSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCysteine EndopeptidasesCysteine Proteinase InhibitorsViral Nonstructural Proteins

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PMID32543196
PMCPMC7313673

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