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ReviewEuropean journal of medicinal chemistry2023

Potential RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitors as prospective drug candidates for SARS-CoV-2.

Mohamed S Bekheit, Siva S Panda, Adel S Girgis

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Review in European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 41 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohamed S BekheitDepartment of Pesticide Chemistry, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, 12622, Egypt.
Siva S PandaDepartment of Chemistry and Physics, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, 30912, USA. Electronic address: sspanda12@gmail.com.
Adel S GirgisDepartment of Pesticide Chemistry, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, 12622, Egypt. Electronic address: as.girgis@nrc.sci.eg.
National Research Centre · EGAugusta University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is considered as one of the most disastrous pandemics for human health and the world economy. RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is one of the key enzymes that control viral replication. RdRp is an attractive and promising therapeutic target for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 disease. It has attracted much interest of medicinal chemists, especially after the approval of Remdesivir. This study highlights the most promising SARS-CoV-2 RdRp repurposed drugs in addition to natural and synthetic agents. Although many in silico predicted agents have been developed, the lack of in vitro and in vivo experimental data has hindered their application in drug discovery programs.

Indexed as

COVID-19SARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsHumansRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralComputational studiesCOVID-19FavipiravirMolnupiravirPolymeraseRdRpRemdesivirSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID36965227
PMCPMC10023213
OpenAlexW4327719817

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