Recent advances towards natural plants as potential inhibitors of SARS-Cov-2 targets

CONTEXT: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is still ongoing and currently the most striking epidemic disease. With the rapid global spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants, new antivirals are urgently needed to avert a more serious crisis. Inhibitors from traditional medicines or natural plants have shown promising results to fight COVID-19 with different mechanisms of action.

OBJECTIVES: To provide comprehensive and promising approaches to the medical community in the fight against this epidemic by reviewing potential plant-derived anti-SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors.

METHODS: Structural databases such as TCMSP (http://lsp.nwu.edu.cn/tcmsp.php), TCM Database Taiwan (http://tcm.cmu.edu.tw/), BATMAN-TCM (http://bionet.ncpsb.org/batman-tcm/) and TCMID (http://www.megabionet.org/tcmid/), as well as PubMed, Sci Finder, Research Gate, Science Direct, CNKI, Web of Science and Google Scholar were searched for relevant articles on TCMs and natural products against SARS-CoV-2.

RESULTS: Seven traditional Chinese medicines formulas have unique advantages in regulating the immune system for treating COVID-19. The plant-derived natural compounds as anti-SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors were identified based on 5 SARS-CoV-2 key proteins, namely, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), 3 C-like protease (3CLpro), papain-like protease (PLpro), spike (S) protein, and nucleocapsid (N) protein.

CONCLUSIONS: A variety of natural products, such as flavonoids, terpenoids, phenols, and alkaloids, were identified, which could be used as potential SASR-Cov-2 inhibitors. These shed new light on the efficient discovery of SASR-Cov-2 inhibitors from natural products.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:61

Enthalten in:

Pharmaceutical biology - 61(2023), 1 vom: 22. Dez., Seite 1186-1210

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

He, Zhouman [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yuanwen [VerfasserIn]
Li, Runfeng [VerfasserIn]
Mo, Meilan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yutao [VerfasserIn]
Ti, Huihui [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-SARS-CoV-2 strategies
Biological Products
COVID-19
EC 3.4.-
Journal Article
Natural products
Peptide Hydrolases
Phytochemicals
Review
SARS-CoV-2
Traditional chinese medicines

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Date Completed 23.08.2023

Date Revised 25.08.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/13880209.2023.2241518

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36104190X