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ArticleHeliyon2021

Telaprevir is a potential drug for repurposing against SARS-CoV-2: computational and

Amal Mahmoud, Ahmed Mostafa, Ahmed A Al-Karmalawy, Ahmad Zidan, Hamada S Abulkhair, Sara H Mahmoud, Mahmoud Shehata, Mahmoud M Elhefnawi, Mohamed A Ali

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Article in Heliyon, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Amal MahmoudDepartment of Biology, College of Science, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box. 1982, 31441, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed MostafaCenter of Scientific Excellence for Infuenza Viruses, National Research Centre, 12622 Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
Ahmed A Al-KarmalawyDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Horus University-Egypt, New Damietta 34518, Egypt.
Ahmad ZidanDepartment of Bioinformatics, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute (GEBRI), University of Sadat City, Egypt.
Hamada S AbulkhairDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Horus University-Egypt, New Damietta 34518, Egypt.
Sara H MahmoudCenter of Scientific Excellence for Infuenza Viruses, National Research Centre, 12622 Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
Mahmoud ShehataCenter of Scientific Excellence for Infuenza Viruses, National Research Centre, 12622 Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
Mahmoud M ElhefnawiBiomedical Informatics and Cheminformatics Group, Informatics and Systems Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
Mohamed A AliCenter of Scientific Excellence for Infuenza Viruses, National Research Centre, 12622 Dokki, Giza, Egypt.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug repurposing is an important approach to the assignment of already approved drugs for new indications. This technique bypasses some steps in the traditional drug approval system, which saves time and lives in the case of pandemics. Direct acting antivirals (DAAs) have repeatedly repurposed from treating one virus to another. In this study, 16 FDA-approved hepatitis C virus (HCV) DAA drugs were studied to explore their activities against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) human and viral targets. Among the 16 HCV DAA drugs, telaprevir has shown the best

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Anti-HCVDrug repurposingProtease inhibitorSARS-CoV-2Telaprevir

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PMCPMC8426143

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