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ArticleScientific reports2021

Drug design and repurposing with DockThor-VS web server focusing on SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic targets and their non-synonym variants.

Isabella A Guedes, Leon S C Costa, Karina B Dos Santos, Ana L M Karl, Gregório K Rocha, Iury M Teixeira, Marcelo M Galheigo, Vivian Medeiros, Eduardo Krempser, Fábio L Custódio and 3 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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13 authors.

Isabella A GuedesGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Leon S C CostaGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Karina B Dos SantosGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Ana L M KarlGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Gregório K RochaInstituto Federal Fluminense - IFF, Macaé, RJ, Brazil.
Iury M TeixeiraGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Marcelo M GalheigoGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Vivian MedeirosGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Eduardo KrempserFundação Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Fábio L CustódioGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Helio J C BarbosaGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Marisa F NicolásLaboratório de Bioinformática (Labinfo), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil. marisa@lncc.br.
Laurent E DardenneGrupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (GMMSB), National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil. dardenne@lncc.br.

Funding

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 307634/2019-1 and 306894/2019-0Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro E-26/010.001229/2015 and E-26/210.935/2019PCI-LNCC 307634/2019-1 and 306894/2019-0
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus was declared a pandemic disease in March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Structure-Based Drug Design strategies based on docking methodologies have been widely used for both new drug development and drug repurposing to find effective treatments against this disease. In this work, we present the developments implemented in the DockThor-VS web server to provide a virtual screening (VS) platform with curated structures of potential therapeutic targets from SARS-CoV-2 incorporating genetic information regarding relevant non-synonymous variations. The web server facilitates repurposing VS experiments providing curated libraries of currently available drugs on the market. At present, DockThor-VS provides ready-for-docking 3D structures for wild type and selected mutations for Nsp3 (papain-like, PLpro domain), Nsp5 (Mpro, 3CLpro), Nsp12 (RdRp), Nsp15 (NendoU), N protein, and Spike. We performed VS experiments of FDA-approved drugs considering the therapeutic targets available at the web server to assess the impact of considering different structures and mutations to identify possible new treatments of SARS-CoV-2 infections. The DockThor-VS is freely available at www.dockthor.lncc.br .

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug DesignAntiviral AgentsDrug RepositioningHumansInternetMolecular Docking SimulationPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Antiviral Agents

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PMID33692377
PMCPMC7946942

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