Title
Natural Products as Potential Inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2 Papain-Like Protease: An in Silico Study
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Abstract
In December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the first case of a patient infected with a new coronavirus was reported, later called SARS-CoV-2 by the World Health Organization, and so far, there is no approved drug or vaccine against this new virus. Considering this, previous studies identified several essential SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins, among these to the papain-like protease (PL pro ), an enzyme with an important role in viral spread and evading the host immune response, making it an attractive drug target. For this reason, using a library of 213,038 structures of natural products and virtual screening, we identified 10 molecules with high affinity for residues of the SARS-CoV-2 PL pro allosteric site, which could be tested in vitro against the virus or as lead-compounds to develop inhibitors that are more effective.
Start page
265
End page
270
Volume
12558 LNBI
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85098277363
Source
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Resource of which it is part
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
ISSN of the container
03029743
ISBN of the container
9783030657741
Conference
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Sponsor(s)
The team gives special thanks to Siembra Empresa Pública (Imbabura, Ecuador) for their support with Quinde 1 supercomputer. Also thanks to Dr. Meng Guo and Dr. Li Wang (National Supercomputing Center in Jinan, China), for their support with the implementation of Vina and helpful discussions, and to Dr. Ana Valderrama (Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Perú) for her personal financial contribution to the project. Finally, remembering that #SinCienciaNoHayFuturo.
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