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ReviewJournal of proteins and proteomics2021

Therapeutically effective covalent spike protein inhibitors in treatment of SARS-CoV-2.

Vikram Choudhary, Amisha Gupta, Rajesh Sharma, Hamendra Singh Parmar

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Review in Journal of proteins and proteomics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Ethanol Inhalation as a Method to Denature the Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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  6. The Sea CucumberJournal of natural products · 2023
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  8. SARS-CoV-2 spike and ACE2 entanglement-like binding.Quantum machine intelligence · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Vikram ChoudharySchool of Pharmacy, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Takshila Campus, Khandwa Road (Ring Road), Indore, 452001 Madhya Pradesh India.
Amisha GuptaSchool of Pharmacy, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Takshila Campus, Khandwa Road (Ring Road), Indore, 452001 Madhya Pradesh India.
Rajesh SharmaSchool of Pharmacy, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Takshila Campus, Khandwa Road (Ring Road), Indore, 452001 Madhya Pradesh India.
Hamendra Singh ParmarSchool of Biotechnology, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Takshila Campus, Khandwa Road, Indore, 452001 Madhya Pradesh India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has resulted in over 204,644,849 confirmed cases and over 4,323,139 deaths throughout the world as of 12 August 2021, a total of 4,428,168,759 vaccine doses have been administered. The lack of potentially effective drugs against the virus is making the situation worse and dangerous. Numerous forces are working on finding an effective treatment against the virus but it is believed that a de novo drug would take several months even if huge financial support is provided. The only solution left with is drug repurposing that would not only provide effective therapy with the already used clinical drugs, but also save time and cost of the de novo drug discovery. The initiation of the COVID-19 infection starts with the attachment of spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 to the host receptor. Hence, the inhibition of the binding of the virus to the host membrane and the entry of the viral particle into the host cell are one of the main therapeutic targets. This paper not only summarizes the structure and the mechanism of spike protein, but the main focus is on the potential covalent spike protein inhibitors.

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ArbidolCOVID-19Drug repurposingSARS-CoV-2Spike proteinTransmembrane protease serine-type 2

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PMID34539131
PMCPMC8440732

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