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ArticleJournal of cellular biochemistry2021

Tetracycline as an inhibitor to the SARS-CoV-2.

Tom Y Zhao, Neelesh A Patankar

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Article in Journal of cellular biochemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2: open the door for novel therapies.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tom Y ZhaoDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7708-0585
Neelesh A PatankarDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Northwestern University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remains an extant threat against public health on a global scale. Cell infection begins when the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 binds with the human cell receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). Here, we address the role of tetracycline as an inhibitor for the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein. Targeted molecular investigation show that tetracycline binds more favorably to the RBD (-9.40 kcal/mol) compared to doxycycline (-8.08 kcal/mol), chloroquine (-6.31 kcal/mol), or gentamicin (-4.83 kcal/mol) while inhibiting attachment to ACE2 to a greater degree (binding efficiency of 2.98 kcal/(mol nm

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2Antiviral AgentsChloroquineCOVID-19DoxycyclineGentamicinsHumansMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein BindingProtein DomainsReceptors, VirusSARS-CoV-2Spike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusTetracyclineACE2 protein, humanAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2Antiviral AgentsChloroquineDoxycyclineGentamicinsReceptors, VirusSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2TetracyclineCoronavirusCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2tetracycline

Identifiers

PMID33619758
PMCPMC8014839
OpenAlexW3048643671

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