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ReviewACS infectious diseases2026

Deadbolt Drug Discovery: Locking the Door to Class 1 Viral Entry by Small Molecules.

John P Sloan, Lijun Rong, Terry W Moore

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Review in ACS infectious diseases, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

John P SloanDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Retzky College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois60612, United States.ORCID 0009-0005-0878-7607
Lijun RongDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Retzky College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois60612, United States.
Terry W MooreDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Retzky College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois60612, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5410-306X

Funding

Optimizing Ridaifen-B analogs as potential therapeutics for Ebola virusesR01AI168362 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI RONG, LIJUN · 2022 to 2025
$3.9M
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01 AI168362NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI168362
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The continued emergence of viral pathogens underscores the need for novel antiviral therapeutics with improved efficacy. Small-molecule inhibitors of viral entry are attractive antiviral agents because they block the virus at its earliest step, preventing the virus from entering host cells and causing downstream damage. Some of the viruses of greatest concern for human health, such as human immunodeficiency virus, respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus, Ebola virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and Lassa virus, encode Class 1 fusion proteins which mediate membrane fusion and viral entry. In this review, we highlight recent advances in the discovery and development of small-molecule entry inhibitors reported over the past five years that target viruses encoding Class 1 fusion proteins.

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Antiviral AgentsDrug DiscoverySmall Molecule LibrariesVirusesVirus InternalizationAnimalsHumansViral Fusion ProteinsAntiviral AgentsSmall Molecule LibrariesViral Fusion Proteinsantiviral entry inhibitorsclass 1 fusion proteinsdrug discoverysmall moleculesviruses

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PMID42599394
PMCPMC13479722

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