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ArticleMicroorganisms2021

A Study of 3CLpros as Promising Targets against SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2.

Seri Jo, Suwon Kim, Jahyun Yoo, Mi-Sun Kim, Dong Hae Shin

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Article in Microorganisms, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Prediction of Drug-Target Affinity Using Attention Neural Network.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  6. Perspectives on SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2021
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5 authors.

Seri JoGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seoul 03760, Korea.
Suwon KimGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seoul 03760, Korea.
Jahyun YooGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seoul 03760, Korea.
Mi-Sun KimGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seoul 03760, Korea.
Dong Hae ShinGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seoul 03760, Korea.

Funding

Ministry of Education, Science and Technology 2018R1D1A1B07050781Ministry of Education, Science and Technology 2018R1D1A1B07050942
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), results in serious chaos all over the world. In addition to the available vaccines, the development of treatments to cure COVID-19 should be done quickly. One of the fastest strategies is to use a drug-repurposing approach. To provide COVID-19 patients with useful information about medicines currently being used in clinical trials, twenty-four compounds, including antiviral agents, were selected and assayed. These compounds were applied to verify the inhibitory activity for the protein function of 3CLpros (main proteases) of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. Among them, viral reverse-transcriptase inhibitors abacavir and tenofovir revealed a good inhibitory effect on both 3CLpros. Intriguingly, sildenafil, a cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor also showed significant inhibitory function against them. The in silico docking study suggests that the active-site residues located in the S1 and S2 sites play key roles in the interactions with the inhibitors. The result indicates that 3CLpros are promising targets to cope with SAR-CoV-2 and its variants. The information can be helpful to design treatments to cure patients with COVID-19.

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antiviraldrug repurposingFRETinhibitory compoundsSARS-CoV-2 3CL protease

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PMID33916747
PMCPMC8065850

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