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ArticleBiomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie2020

Targeting the SARS-CoV2 nucleocapsid protein for potential therapeutics using immuno-informatics and structure-based drug discovery techniques.

Alexander Kwarteng, Ebenezer Asiedu, Samuel Amoah Sakyi, Samuel Opoku Asiedu

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Article in Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Toll-like Receptor Mediation in SARS-CoV-2: A Therapeutic Approach.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  7. Novel Drug Design for Treatment of COVID-19: A Systematic Review of Preclinical Studies.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2022
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  13. Immunogenicity and antigenicity based T-cell and B-cell epitopes identification from conserved regions of 10664 SARS-CoV-2 genomes.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander KwartengDepartment of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana; Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana. Electronic address: akwarteng@knust.edu.gh.
Ebenezer AsieduKumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana.
Samuel Amoah SakyiDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.
Samuel Opoku AsieduKumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana.
Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine · GHKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · GH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The occurrence of the SARS-CoV2 infection has become a worldwide threat and the urgent need to discover therapeutic interventions remains paramount. The primary roles of the coronavirus nucleocapsid (N) protein are to interact with the viral genome and pack them into ribonucleoprotein complex. It also plays critical roles at many stages of the viral life cycle. Herein, we explore the N protein of SARS-CoV2 to identify promising epitope-based vaccine candidates and target the N-terminal domain of SARS-CoV2 N-protein for potential inhibitors using an integrative bioinformatics approach. We identified B-cell epitopes and T-cell epitopes that are non-toxic, non-allergenic, capable of inducing IFN-γ and structurally stable with high global population coverage of response. The

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COVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsComputational BiologyCoronavirus Nucleocapsid ProteinsDrug DiscoveryEpitopesHumansMolecular Docking SimulationPhosphoproteinsViral VaccinesZidovudineAntiviral AgentsCoronavirus Nucleocapsid ProteinsEpitopesnucleocapsid phosphoprotein, SARS-CoV-2PhosphoproteinsViral VaccinesZidovudineCOVID-19EpitopeImmuno-informaticsMolecular dynamics simulationVaccineZidovudine

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PMID33254432
PMCPMC7574726
OpenAlexW3093752199

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