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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2022

Repurposing of Doxycycline to Hinder the Viral Replication of SARS-CoV-2: From

Rajaiah Alexpandi, Mathieu Gendrot, Gurusamy Abirami, Océane Delandre, Isabelle Fonta, Joel Mosnier, Richard Mariadasse, Jeyaraman Jeyakanthan, Shunmugiah Karutha Pandian, Bruno Pradines and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Doxycycline's Potential Role in Reducing Thrombosis and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19: A Multicenter Cohort Study.Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Rajaiah AlexpandiLaboratory in Microbiology and Marine Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.
Mathieu GendrotParasitology and Entomology Unit, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Marseille, France.
Gurusamy AbiramiLaboratory in Microbiology and Marine Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.
Océane DelandreParasitology and Entomology Unit, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Marseille, France.
Isabelle FontaParasitology and Entomology Unit, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Marseille, France.
Joel MosnierParasitology and Entomology Unit, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Marseille, France.
Richard MariadasseStructural Biology and Bio-Computing Laboratory, Department of Bioinformatics, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.
Jeyaraman JeyakanthanStructural Biology and Bio-Computing Laboratory, Department of Bioinformatics, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.
Shunmugiah Karutha PandianLaboratory in Microbiology and Marine Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.
Bruno PradinesParasitology and Entomology Unit, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Marseille, France.
Arumugam Veera RaviLaboratory in Microbiology and Marine Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.
Alagappa University · INService de Santé des Armées · FRAix-Marseille Université · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the rapid spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) became a global pandemic, healthcare ministries around the world have recommended specific control methods such as quarantining infected peoples, identifying infections, wearing mask, and practicing hand hygiene. Since no effective treatment for COVID-19 has yet been discovered, a variety of drugs approved by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been suggested for repurposing strategy. In the current study, we predicted that doxycycline could interact with the nucleotide triphosphate (NTP) entry channel, and is therefore expected to hinder the viral replication of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase (RdRp) through docking analysis. Further, the molecular dynamics results revealed that the RdRp-Doxycycline complex was structurally relatively stable during the dynamic period (100 ns), and its complex maintained close contact with their active catalytic domains of SARS-CoV-2 RdRp. The molecular mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann surface area (MM-PBSA) calculation of binding free energy also showed that the doxycycline has worthy affinities with SARS-CoV-2 RdRp. As expected, doxycycline effectively inhibited the viral replication of IHU strains of SARS-CoV-2 (IHUMI-3 and IHUMI-6), identified from the hospitalized patients in IHU Méditerranée Infection (IHUMI), Marseille, France. Moreover, doxycycline inhibited the viral load

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COVID-19doxycyclinedrug repurposingin silicoin vitroSARS-CoV-2

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