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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2020

Vulnerabilities of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus to Proteotoxicity-Opportunity for Repurposed Chemotherapy of COVID-19 Infection.

Maryam S Al-Motawa, Hafsa Abbas, Patrick Wijten, Alberto de la Fuente, Mingzhan Xue, Naila Rabbani, Paul J Thornalley

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Maryam S Al-MotawaCollege of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
Hafsa AbbasClinical Sciences Research Laboratories, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, University Hospital, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Patrick WijtenDiabetes Research Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
Alberto de la FuenteDiabetes Research Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
Mingzhan XueDiabetes Research Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
Naila RabbaniDepartment of Basic Medical Science, College of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Paul J ThornalleyCollege of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
Hamad bin Khalifa University · QAUniversity Hospital Coventry · GBQatar Foundation · QAQatar University · QA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global pandemic of COVID-19 disease caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, has produced an urgent requirement and search for improved treatments while effective vaccines are developed. A strategy for improved drug therapy is to increase levels of endogenous reactive metabolites for selective toxicity to SARS-CoV-2 by preferential damage to the viral proteome. Key reactive metabolites producing major quantitative damage to the proteome in physiological systems are: reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the reactive glycating agent methylglyoxal (MG); cysteine residues and arginine residues are their most susceptible targets, respectively. From sequenced-based prediction of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome, we found 0.8-fold enrichment or depletion of cysteine residues in functional domains of the viral proteome; whereas there was a 4.6-fold enrichment of arginine residues, suggesting SARS-CoV-2 is resistant to oxidative agents and sensitive to MG. For arginine residues of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus predicted to be in functional domains, we examined which are activated toward modification by MG - residues with predicted or expected low pK

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bioinformaticscoronavirusCOVID-19doxorubicinglyoxalasemethylglyoxalpaclitaxelproteomics

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PMID33162891
PMCPMC7581855
OpenAlexW3103159418

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