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ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Sub-Micromolar Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro by Natural Compounds.

Bruno Rizzuti, Laura Ceballos-Laita, David Ortega-Alarcon, Ana Jimenez-Alesanco, Sonia Vega, Fedora Grande, Filomena Conforti, Olga Abian, Adrian Velazquez-Campoy

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Article in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. COVID-19 in Dental Practice Is Prevented by Eugenol Responsible for the Ambient Odor Specific to Dental Offices: Possibility and Speculation.Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2024
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  6. Autochthonous Peruvian Natural Plants as Potential SARS-CoV-2 MPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Bruno RizzutiCNR-NANOTEC, SS Rende (CS), Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1110-764X
Laura Ceballos-LaitaInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7223-1719
David Ortega-AlarconInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1885-4365
Ana Jimenez-AlesancoInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.
Sonia VegaInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.
Fedora GrandeDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6154-4330
Filomena ConfortiDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6699-005X
Olga AbianInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5664-1729
Adrian Velazquez-CampoyInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5702-4538

Funding

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas N/AFundación hna N/AGobierno de Aragón B25_20RGobierno de Aragón E45_20RInstituto de Salud Carlos III CPII13/00017Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI18/00349Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades BES-2017-080739Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad BFU2016-78232-P
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inhibiting the main protease 3CLpro is the most common strategy in the search for antiviral drugs to fight the infection from SARS-CoV-2. We report that the natural compound eugenol is able to hamper in vitro the enzymatic activity of 3CLpro, the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, with an inhibition constant in the sub-micromolar range (K

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antiviralsdrug selectionenzyme inhibitorseugenolmain proteasemolecular modelingSARS-CoV-2spectroscopy

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PMID34577592
PMCPMC8465303

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