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Furin: A Potential Therapeutic Target for COVID-19.
Article in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.
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112 citing papers in PubMed, 191 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Synergistic Phenolic Compounds in Medicinal Plant Extracts: Enhanced Furin Protease Inhibition via Solvent-Specific Extraction from Lamiaceae and Asteraceae Families.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- COVID-19 Humic/Fulvic Acid Plus Epigallocatechin Gallate Treatment: A Retrospective Chart Review.Cureus · 2025Article
- Transplacental Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Narrative Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
- Coordination chemistry suggests that independently observed benefits of metformin and ZnBiometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2024Article
- Docking, MD Simulations, and DFT Calculations: Assessing W254's Function and Sartan Binding in Furin.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Article
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- Structural Features Influencing the Bioactive Conformation of Angiotensin II and Angiotensin A: Relationship between Receptor Desensitization, Addiction, and the Blood-Brain Barrier.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Novel genetic association of the Furin gene polymorphism rs1981458 with COVID-19 severity among Indian populations.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Functional and Multi-Omics Effects of an Optimized CRISPR-Mediated FURIN Depletion in U937 Monocytes.Cells · 2024Article
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- Variations in Furin SNPs, a Major Concern of SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility Among Different Populations: AnBioinformatics and biology insights · 2024Article
- The role of Pannexin-1 channels, ATP, and purinergic receptors in the pathogenesis of HIV and SARS-CoV-2.Current opinion in pharmacology · 2023Review
- Aprotinin-Drug against Respiratory Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Network-Based Prediction of Side Effects of Repurposed Antihypertensive Sartans against COVID-19 via Proteome and Drug-Target Interactomes.Proteomes · 2023Article
- Repurposing clinically available drugs and therapies for pathogenic targets to combat SARS-CoV-2.MedComm · 2023Review
- The controversial effect of smoking and nicotine in SARS-CoV-2 infection.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2023Review
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- Strategies for the Management of Spike Protein-Related Pathology.Microorganisms · 2023Review
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Abstract
COVID-19 broke out in the end of December 2019 and is still spreading rapidly, which has been listed as an international concerning public health emergency. We found that the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 contains a furin cleavage site, which did not exist in any other betacoronavirus subtype B. Based on a series of analysis, we speculate that the presence of a redundant furin cut site in its Spike protein is responsible for SARS-CoV-2's stronger infectious nature than other coronaviruses, which leads to higher membrane fusion efficiency. Subsequently, a library of 4,000 compounds including approved drugs and natural products was screened against furin through structure-based virtual screening and then assayed for their inhibitory effects on furin activity. Among them, an anti-parasitic drug, diminazene, showed the highest inhibition effects on furin with an IC
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