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ArticleSLAS discovery : advancing life sciences R & D2021

Probing the SAM Binding Site of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp14 In Vitro Using SAM Competitive Inhibitors Guides Developing Selective Bisubstrate Inhibitors.

Kanchan Devkota, Matthieu Schapira, Sumera Perveen, Aliakbar Khalili Yazdi, Fengling Li, Irene Chau, Pegah Ghiabi, Taraneh Hajian, Peter Loppnau, Albina Bolotokova and 10 more

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Article in SLAS discovery : advancing life sciences R & D, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Kanchan DevkotaStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Matthieu SchapiraStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sumera PerveenStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Aliakbar Khalili YazdiStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Fengling LiStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Irene ChauStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Pegah GhiabiStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Taraneh HajianStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Peter LoppnauStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Albina BolotokovaStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Karla J F SatchellDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Ke WangChemical Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Deyao LiChemical Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Jing LiuDepartments of Pharmacological Sciences and Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
David SmilStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Minkui LuoChemical Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Jian JinDepartments of Pharmacological Sciences and Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Paul V FishAlzheimer's Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Peter J BrownStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Masoud VedadiStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0574-0169
University of Toronto · CAMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USAlzheimer’s Research UK · GBNorthwestern University · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Interrogating Protein Methyltransferases with Integrated ApproachesR35GM131858 · NIGMS · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI Minkui Luo · 2019 to 2026
$6.3M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201700060CNIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131858Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 106169/ZZ14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly brought the healthcare systems worldwide to a breaking point, along with devastating socioeconomic consequences. The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the disease, uses RNA capping to evade the human immune system. Nonstructural protein (nsp) 14 is one of the 16 nsps in SARS-CoV-2 and catalyzes the methylation of the viral RNA at N7-guanosine in the cap formation process. To discover small-molecule inhibitors of nsp14 methyltransferase (MTase) activity, we developed and employed a radiometric MTase assay to screen a library of 161 in-house synthesized

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsBinding SitesCOVID-19ExoribonucleasesHumansMethylationPandemicsProtein BindingRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Viral Nonstructural ProteinsVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsExoribonucleasesNSP14 protein, SARS-CoV-2RNA, ViralViral Nonstructural ProteinscoronavirusCOVID-19nsp14SARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34192965
PMCPMC8458670
OpenAlexW3174724231

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