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ArticleStructural chemistry2020

Destabilizing the structural integrity of COVID-19 by caulerpin and its derivatives along with some antiviral drugs: An in silico approaches for a combination therapy.

Shimaa A Ahmed, Doaa A Abdelrheem, H R Abd El-Mageed, Hussein S Mohamed, Aziz A Rahman, Khaled N M Elsayed, Sayed A Ahmed

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Article in Structural chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shimaa A AhmedDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, 62511 Egypt.
Doaa A AbdelrheemDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, 62511 Egypt.
H R Abd El-MageedMicro-analysis and Environmental Research and Community Services Center, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt.
Hussein S MohamedResearch Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (RIMAP), Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt.
Aziz A RahmanDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, 6205 Bangladesh.
Khaled N M ElsayedDepartment of Botany, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, 62511 Egypt.
Sayed A AhmedDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, 62511 Egypt.
Beni-Suef University · EGUniversity of Rajshahi · BD

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Presently, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has been spreading throughout the world. Some drugs such as lopinavir, simeprevir, hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, and amprenavir have been recommended for COVID-19 treatment by some researchers, but these drugs were not effective enough against this virus. This study based on in silico approaches was aimed to increase the anti-COVID-19 activities of these drugs by using caulerpin and its derivatives as an adjunct drug against SARS-CoV-2 receptor proteins: the SARS-CoV-2 main protease and the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Caulerpin exhibited antiviral activities against chikungunya virus and herpes simplex virus type 1. Caulerpin and some of its derivatives showed inhibitory activity against Alzheimer's disease. The web server ANCHOR revealed higher protein stability for the two receptors with disordered score (< 0.6). Molecular docking analysis showed that the binding energies of most of the caulerpin derivatives were higher than all the suggested drugs for the two receptors. Also, we deduced that inserting NH

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ANCHOR and MD simulationCaulerpinMolecular dockingSARS-CoV-2Simeprevir

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PMID32837118
PMCPMC7376526
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