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ReviewPLoS pathogens2021

SARS-CoV-2 tropism, entry, replication, and propagation: Considerations for drug discovery and development.

Nicholas Murgolo, Alex G Therien, Bonnie Howell, Daniel Klein, Kenneth Koeplinger, Linda A Lieberman, Gregory C Adam, Jessica Flynn, Philip McKenna, Gokul Swaminathan and 2 more

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Review in PLoS pathogens, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
120citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

120 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 214 citations in OpenAlex.

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60 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas MurgoloDepartment of Genetics and Pharmacogenomics, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-7094-3344
Alex G TherienExploratory Science Center, Merck & Co., Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Bonnie HowellDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5915-9943
Daniel KleinDepartment of Computational and Structural Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Kenneth KoeplingerDepartment of Pharmacokinetics, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-5469-4448
Linda A LiebermanExploratory Science Center, Merck & Co., Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Gregory C AdamDepartment of Quantitative Biosciences, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-2155-6927
Jessica FlynnDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-4406-0235
Philip McKennaDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Gokul SwaminathanExploratory Science Center, Merck & Co., Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Daria J HazudaDiscovery Biology & Translational Medicine, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
David B OlsenDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-5521-0206
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · USUnited States Military Academy · USQuantitative BioSciences · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the initial report of the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emanating from Wuhan, China, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally. While the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection are not completely understood, there appears to be a wide spectrum of disease ranging from mild symptoms to severe respiratory distress, hospitalization, and mortality. There are no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatments for COVID-19 aside from remdesivir; early efforts to identify efficacious therapeutics for COVID-19 have mainly focused on drug repurposing screens to identify compounds with antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 in cellular infection systems. These screens have yielded intriguing hits, but the use of nonhuman immortalized cell lines derived from non-pulmonary or gastrointestinal origins poses any number of questions in predicting the physiological and pathological relevance of these potential interventions. While our knowledge of this novel virus continues to evolve, our current understanding of the key molecular and cellular interactions involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection is discussed in order to provide a framework for developing the most appropriate in vitro toolbox to support current and future drug discovery efforts.

Indexed as

Drug DiscoveryViral TropismVirus InternalizationVirus ReplicationCathepsinsCell LineCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug DevelopmentEndocytosisFurinHumansSARS-CoV-2Serine EndopeptidasesCathepsinsFurinFURIN protein, humanSerine EndopeptidasesTMPRSS2 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID33596266
PMCPMC7888651
OpenAlexW3133133483

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