Repurposing metocurine as main protease inhibitor to develop novel antiviral therapy for COVID-19

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The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 is causing a serious disaster through coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) around the globe. A large segment of the population from every corner of the world is already infected with this dreadful pathogen with a high mortality rate. These numbers are increasing drastically causing a situation of a global pandemic. Although after the continuous scientific efforts, we are still not having any specific drug or vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen to date and there is an urgent need to develop a newer therapy to counter the COVID-19 global pandemic. Thus, in the current study, a framework for computational drug repurposing is established, and based on their safety profile, metocurine was chosen as a safe and effective drug candidate for developing therapy against the viral Mpro enzyme of SARS-CoV-2 for the treatment of COVID-19.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Structural chemistry - 31(2020), 6 vom: 15., Seite 2487-2499

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jain, Rashi [VerfasserIn]
Mujwar, Somdutt [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral
COVID-19
Corona
Drug repositioning
Drug repurposing
Journal Article
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Revised 30.06.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11224-020-01605-w

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314105603