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Prediction of potential inhibitors of the dimeric SARS-CoV2 main proteinase through the MM/GBSA approach.


ABSTRACT: Since the emergence of SARS-CoV2, to date, no effective antiviral drug has been approved to treat the disease, and no vaccine against SARS-CoV2 is available. Under this scenario, the combination of two HIV-1 protease inhibitors, lopinavir and ritonavir, has attracted attention since they have been previously employed against the SARS-CoV main proteinase (Mpro) and exhibited some signs of effectiveness. Recently, the 3D structure of SARS-CoV2 Mpro was constructed based on the monomeric SARS-CoV Mpro and employed to identify potential approved small inhibitors against SARS-CoV2 Mpro, allowing the selection of 15 drugs among 1903 approved drugs to be employed. In this study, we performed docking of these 15 approved drugs against the recently solved X-ray crystallography structure of SARS-CoV2 Mpro in the monomeric and dimeric states; the latter is the functional state that was determined in a biological context, and these were submitted to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations coupled with the molecular mechanics generalized Born surface area (MM/GBSA) approach to obtain insight into the inhibitory activity of these compounds. Similar studies were performed with lopinavir and ritonavir coupled to monomeric and dimeric SARS-CoV Mpro and SARS-CoV2 Mpro to compare the inhibitory differences. Our study provides the structural and energetic basis of the inhibitory properties of lopinavir and ritonavir on SARS-CoV Mpro and SARS-CoV2 Mpro, allowing us to identify two FDA-approved drugs that can be used against SARS-CoV2 Mpro. This study also demonstrated that drug discovery requires the dimeric state to obtain good results.

SUBMITTER: Bello M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7511853 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Prediction of potential inhibitors of the dimeric SARS-CoV2 main proteinase through the MM/GBSA approach.

Bello Martiniano M  

Journal of molecular graphics & modelling 20200924


Since the emergence of SARS-CoV2, to date, no effective antiviral drug has been approved to treat the disease, and no vaccine against SARS-CoV2 is available. Under this scenario, the combination of two HIV-1 protease inhibitors, lopinavir and ritonavir, has attracted attention since they have been previously employed against the SARS-CoV main proteinase (M<sup>pro</sup>) and exhibited some signs of effectiveness. Recently, the 3D structure of SARS-CoV2 M<sup>pro</sup> was constructed based on th  ...[more]

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