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ArticleInternational journal of biological macromolecules2020

Structural stability of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro and identification of quercetin as an inhibitor by experimental screening.

Olga Abian, David Ortega-Alarcon, Ana Jimenez-Alesanco, Laura Ceballos-Laita, Sonia Vega, Hugh T Reyburn, Bruno Rizzuti, Adrian Velazquez-Campoy

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Article in International journal of biological macromolecules, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04578158 (A Prospective, Randomized, Open-labelled, Controlled Trial to Study the Adjuvant Benefits of Quercetin Phytosome in Patients With Diagnosis of COVID-19.), which is not on this map. Cited by 152 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT04578158 phase3completednot on this map

A Prospective, Randomized, Open-labelled, Controlled Trial to Study the Adjuvant Benefits of Quercetin Phytosome in Patients With Diagnosis of COVID-19.

TypeinterventionalSponsorLiaquat University of Medical & Health SciencesRan2020 to 2021Enrolled152ConditionsCOVID-19ArmsStandard COVID-19 care, Quercetin Phytosome
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Olga AbianInstituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS), 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón (IIS Aragon), 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en el Área Temática de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), 28029 Madrid, Spain; Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain. Electronic address: oabifra@unizar.es.
David Ortega-AlarconInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.
Ana Jimenez-AlesancoInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.
Laura Ceballos-LaitaInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón (IIS Aragon), 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.
Sonia VegaInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.
Hugh T ReyburnDepartment of Immunology and Oncology, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Bruno RizzutiCNR-NANOTEC, Licryl-UOS Cosenza and CEMIF.Cal, Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.
Adrian Velazquez-CampoyInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón (IIS Aragon), 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en el Área Temática de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), 28029 Madrid, Spain; Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Fundación ARAID, Gobierno de Aragón, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain. Electronic address: adrianvc@unizar.es.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global health emergency generated by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has prompted the search for preventive and therapeutic treatments for its pathogen, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). There are many potential targets for drug discovery and development to tackle this disease. One of these targets is the main protease, Mpro or 3CLpro, which is highly conserved among coronaviruses. 3CLpro is an essential player in the viral replication cycle, processing the large viral polyproteins and rendering the individual proteins functional. We report a biophysical characterization of the structural stability and the catalytic activity of 3CLpro from SARS-CoV-2, from which a suitable experimental in vitro molecular screening procedure has been designed. By screening of a small chemical library consisting of about 150 compounds, the natural product quercetin was identified as reasonably potent inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro (K

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Antiviral AgentsBetacoronavirusCatalytic DomainCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentCysteine EndopeptidasesDrug DiscoveryHumansMolecular Docking SimulationPandemicsPneumonia, ViralProtease InhibitorsProtein ConformationProtein UnfoldingAntiviral AgentsCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCysteine EndopeptidasesProtease InhibitorsQuercetinViral Nonstructural ProteinsDrug discoverySARS-CoV-2 3CL proteaseStructural stability

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PMID32745548
PMCPMC7395220

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