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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2025

Discovery of the Clinical Candidate

Yuto Unoh, Keiichiro Hirai, Shota Uehara, Sho Kawashima, Haruaki Nobori, Jun Sato, Hiromitsu Shibayama, Akihiro Hori, Kenji Nakahara, Kana Kurahashi and 12 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Yuto UnohShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5200-7349
Keiichiro HiraiShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Shota UeharaShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5214-8531
Sho KawashimaShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Haruaki NoboriShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Jun SatoShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0225-9476
Hiromitsu ShibayamaShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Akihiro HoriShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Kenji NakaharaShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Kana KurahashiShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Masayuki TakamatsuShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0009-0003-4810-065X
Shiho YamamotoShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1731-7931
Qianhui ZhangShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Miki TanimuraShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Reiko DodoShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.
Yuki MaruyamaShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0812-1478
Hirofumi SawaInstitute for Vaccine Research and Development (HU-IVReD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-2569-2755
Ryosuke WatariShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0009-0004-1846-0467
Tetsuya MiyanoShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4126-251X
Teruhisa KatoShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5041-0110
Takafumi SatoShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6534-2560
Yuki TachibanaShionogi Pharmaceutical Research Center, 3-1-1 Futaba-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 561-0825, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6845-4453

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic crisis has been mitigated by worldwide efforts to develop vaccines and therapeutic drugs. However, there remains concern regarding public health and an unmet need for therapeutic options. Herein, we report the discovery of

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentProtease InhibitorsSARS-CoV-2AnimalsChlorocebus aethiopsCOVID-19Drug DiscoveryFemaleHumansMiceStructure-Activity RelationshipVero Cells3C-like proteinase, SARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsCoronavirus 3C ProteasesProtease Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID40616520
PMCPMC12557365

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