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A Multi-Targeting Approach to Fight SARS-CoV-2 Attachment.


ABSTRACT: The public health has declared an international state of emergency due to the spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) representing a real pandemic threat so that to find potential therapeutic agents is a dire need. To this aim, the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) glycoprotein represents a crucial target for vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, and diagnostics. Since virus binding to ACE-2 alone could not be sufficient to justify such severe infection, in order to facilitate medical countermeasure development and to search for new targets, two further regions of S protein have been taken into consideration here. One is represented by the recently identified ganglioside binding site, exactly localized in our study in the galectin-like domain, and the other one by the putative integrin binding sites contained in the RBD. We propose that a cooperating therapy using inhibitors against multiple targets altogether i.e., ACE2, integrins and sugars could be definitely more effective.

SUBMITTER: Pirone L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7416604 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Multi-Targeting Approach to Fight SARS-CoV-2 Attachment.

Pirone Luciano L   Del Gatto Annarita A   Di Gaetano Sonia S   Saviano Michele M   Capasso Domenica D   Zaccaro Laura L   Pedone Emilia E  

Frontiers in molecular biosciences 20200803


The public health has declared an international state of emergency due to the spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) representing a real pandemic threat so that to find potential therapeutic agents is a dire need. To this aim, the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) glycoprotein represents a crucial target for vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, and diagnostics. Since virus binding to ACE-2 alone could not be sufficient to justify such severe infection, in order to facilitate medical countermeasure development  ...[more]

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