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ArticleJournal of biomolecular structure & dynamics2022

Repurposing drugs and identification of inhibitors of integral proteins (spike protein and main protease) of SARS-CoV-2.

F O Shode, A S K Idowu, O J Uhomoibhi, S Sabiu

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Article in Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

F O ShodeFaculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Durban University of Technology (DUT), Durban, South Africa.
A S K IdowuKwaZulu-Natal Research, Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP)/Genomics Unit, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
O J UhomoibhiFaculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Durban University of Technology (DUT), Durban, South Africa.
S SabiuFaculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Durban University of Technology (DUT), Durban, South Africa.
Durban University of Technology · ZAUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The outbreak of Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare the outbreak, a Public Health Emergency of International concern. As part of the efforts to discover lead compounds for clinical use, 53 molecules were screened using molecular docking and dynamic simulations (MDS) techniques to identify potential inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (COVID-19 S

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentSARS-CoV-2Drug RepositioningHumansMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationPeptide HydrolasesProtease InhibitorsSpike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusPeptide HydrolasesProtease InhibitorsSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2Coronavirus infectioninhibitorsmain protease enzymemolecular dynamic simulationsspike (S) glycoprotein

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PMID33590806
PMCPMC7898306
OpenAlexW3131134318

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