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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Microbial Natural Products with Antiviral Activities, Including Anti-SARS-CoV-2: A Review.

Andri Frediansyah, Fajar Sofyantoro, Saad Alhumaid, Abbas Al Mutair, Hawra Albayat, Hayyan I Altaweil, Hani M Al-Afghani, Abdullah A AlRamadhan, Mariam R AlGhazal, Safaa A Turkistani and 2 more

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 9 institutions in 5 countries.

Andri FrediansyahPRTPP, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Yogyakarta 55861, Indonesia.ORCID 0000-0003-4923-2948
Fajar SofyantoroFaculty of Biology, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia.ORCID 0000-0003-0952-1956
Saad AlhumaidAdministration of Pharmaceutical Care, Al-Ahsa Health Cluster, Ministry of Health, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-4552-4513
Abbas Al MutairResearch Center, Almoosa Specialist Hospital, Al-Ahsa 36342, Saudi Arabia.
Hawra AlbayatInfectious Disease Department, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh 7790, Saudi Arabia.
Hayyan I AltaweilDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Mohammed Al-Mana College of Health Sciences, Dammam 34222, Saudi Arabia.
Hani M Al-AfghaniLaboratory Department, Security Forces Hospital, Makkah 24269, Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah A AlRamadhanLaboratory and Toxicology Department, Security Forces Specialized Comprehensive Clinics, Al-Ahsa 36441, Saudi Arabia.
Mariam R AlGhazalHematopathology Department, Dammam Regional Laboratory, Dammam 1854, Saudi Arabia.
Safaa A TurkistaniFakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah 21134, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-8607-5251
Abdulmonem A AbuzaidMedical Microbiology Department, Security Forces Hospital Programme, Dammam 32314, Saudi Arabia.
Ali A RabaanMolecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran 31311, Saudi Arabia.
Security Forces Hospital · SAAlfaisal University · SADammam Central Hospital · SAKing Saud Medical City · SAMinistry of Health · MMNational Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia · IDPrincess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University · SASoliman Fakeeh Hospital · SAUniversitas Gadjah Mada · ID

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which caused the COVID-19 infection, was discovered two and a half years ago. It caused a global pandemic, resulting in millions of deaths and substantial damage to the worldwide economy. Currently, only a few vaccines and antiviral drugs are available to combat SARS-CoV-2. However, there has been an increase in virus-related research, including exploring new drugs and their repurposing. Since discovering penicillin, natural products, particularly those derived from microbes, have been viewed as an abundant source of lead compounds for drug discovery. These compounds treat bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral infections. This review incorporates evidence from the available research publications on isolated and identified natural products derived from microbes with anti-hepatitis, anti-herpes simplex, anti-HIV, anti-influenza, anti-respiratory syncytial virus, and anti-SARS-CoV-2 properties. About 131 compounds with in vitro antiviral activity and 1 compound with both in vitro and in vivo activity have been isolated from microorganisms, and the mechanism of action for some of these compounds has been described. Recent reports have shown that natural products produced by the microbes, such as aurasperone A, neochinulin A and B, and aspulvinone D, M, and R, have potent in vitro anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity, targeting the main protease (M

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Biological ProductsCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentAntiviral AgentsHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsBiological ProductsaspulvinoneaurasperoneCOVID-19microorganismnatural productsSARS-CoV-2

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PMCPMC9268554
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