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ArticleJournal of molecular structure2021

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine inhibitors for COVID-19 sialic acid cellular receptor: Structure, hirshfeld atomic charge analysis and solvent effect.

Tariq A Altalhi, Khaled Alswat, Walaa F Alsanie, Mohamed M Ibrahim, Ali Aldalbahi, Hamdy S El-Sheshtawy

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Article in Journal of molecular structure, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Tariq A AltalhiDepartment of Chemistry, Collage of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
Khaled AlswatDepartment of internal medicine, Collage of medicine, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
Walaa F AlsanieDepartment of Clinical Laboratories Science, Collage of Applied Medical Sciences, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed M IbrahimDepartment of Chemistry, Collage of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
Ali AldalbahiDepartment of Chemistry, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Hamdy S El-SheshtawyChemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Kafrelsheikh University, 33516 Kafr ElSheikh, Egypt.
Taif University · SAKafrelsheikh University · EGKing Saud University · SA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19, the pandemic disease recently discovered in Wuhan (China), severely spread and affected both social and economic activity all over the world. Attempts to find an effective vaccine are challenging, time-consuming though interminable. Hence, re-proposing effective drugs is reliable and effective alternative. Taking into account the genome similarity of COVID-19 with SARS-CoV, drugs with safety profiles could be fast solution. Clinical trials encouraged the use of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 inhibition. One of the possible inhibition pathways is the competitive binding with the angiotension-converting enzyme-2 (ACE-2), in particular with the cellular Sialic acid (Neu5Ac). Here, we investigate the possible binding mechanism of ClQ and ClQOH with sialic acid both in the gas phase and in water using density functional theory (DFT). We investigated the binding of the neutral, monoprotonated and diprotonated ClQs and ClQOHs to sialic acid to simulate the pH effect on the cellular receptor binding. DFT results reveals that monoprotonated ClQ

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ChloroquineCOVID-19DFT calculationsHydroxychloroquineSialic acid

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