Computational Design of Potent Inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2’s Main Protease

In silico drug design can play a vital role in identifying promising drug candidates against COVID-19. Herein, we focused on the main protease of SARS-CoV-2 that plays crucial biological functions in the virus. We performed a ligand-based virtual screening followed by a docking screening for testing approved drugs and bioactive compounds listed in the DrugBank and ChEMBL databases. The top 8 docking results were advanced to all-atom MD simulations to study the relative stability of the protein-ligand interactions.Our results suggest several promising approved and bioactive inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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chemRxiv.org - (2021) vom: 17. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Abu-Saleh, Abd Al-Aziz A. [VerfasserIn]
Awad, Ibrahim [VerfasserIn]
Yadav, Arpita [VerfasserIn]
Poirier, Raymond A. [VerfasserIn]

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Chemistry

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10.26434/chemrxiv.12548003

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XCH018215262