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Current approaches for target-specific drug discovery using natural compounds against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

ABSTRACT: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) recently caused a pandemic outbreak called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This disease has initially been reported in China and also now it is expeditiously spreading around the globe directly among individuals through coughing and sneezing. Since it is a newly emerging viral disease and obviously there is a lack of anti-SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic agents, it is urgently required to develop an effective anti-SARS-CoV-2-agent.Through recent advancements in computational biology and biological assays, several natural compounds and their derivatives have been reported to confirm their target specific antiviral potential against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS-CoV).These targets including an important host cell receptor, i.e., angiotensin-converting enzyme ACE2 and several viral proteins e.g. spike glycoprotein (S) containing S1 and S2 domains, SARS CoV Chymotrypsin-like cysteine protease (3CLpro), papain-like cysteine protease (PLpro), helicases and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). Due to physical, chemical, and some genetic similarities of SARS CoV-2 with SARS-COV and MERS-COV, repurposing various anti-SARS-COV or anti-MERS-COV natural therapeutic agents could be helpful for the development of anti-COVID-19 herbal medicine. Here we have summarized various drug targets in SARS-COV and MERS-COV using several natural products and their derivatives, which could guide researchers to design and develop a safe and cost-effective anti-SARS-COV-2 drugs.

SUBMITTER: Khare P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7513916 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Current approaches for target-specific drug discovery using natural compounds against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Khare Prashant P Sahu Utkarsha U Pandey Satish Chandra SC Samant Mukesh M

Virus research 20200924

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) recently caused a pandemic outbreak called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This disease has initially been reported in China and also now it is expeditiously spreading around the globe directly among individuals through coughing and sneezing. Since it is a newly emerging viral disease and obviously there is a lack of anti-SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic agents, it is urgently required to develop an effective anti-SARS-CoV-2-agent.Throu ...[more]

PMID: 32979476

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Project description:SARS-CoV-2 caused the current COVID-19 pandemic and there is an urgent need to explore effective therapeutics that can inhibit enzymes that are imperative in virus reproduction. To this end, we computationally investigated the MPD3 phytochemical database along with the pool of reported natural antiviral compounds with potential to be used as anti-SARS-CoV-2. The docking results demonstrated glycyrrhizin followed by azadirachtanin, mycophenolic acid, kushenol-w and 6-azauridine, as potential candidates. Glycyrrhizin depicted very stable binding mode to the active pocket of the Mpro (binding energy, -8.7 kcal/mol), PLpro (binding energy, -7.9 kcal/mol), and Nucleocapsid (binding energy, -7.9 kcal/mol) enzymes. This compound showed binding with several key residues that are critical to natural substrate binding and functionality to all the receptors. To test docking prediction, the compound with each receptor was subjected to molecular dynamics simulation to characterize the molecule stability and decipher its possible mechanism of binding. Each complex concludes that the receptor dynamics are stable (Mpro (mean RMSD, 0.93 Å), PLpro (mean RMSD, 0.96 Å), and Nucleocapsid (mean RMSD, 3.48 Å)). Moreover, binding free energy analyses such as MMGB/PBSA and WaterSwap were run over selected trajectory snapshots to affirm intermolecular affinity in the complexes. Glycyrrhizin was rescored to form strong affinity complexes with the virus enzymes: Mpro (MMGBSA, -24.42 kcal/mol and MMPBSA, -10.80 kcal/mol), PLpro (MMGBSA, -48.69 kcal/mol and MMPBSA, -38.17 kcal/mol) and Nucleocapsid (MMGBSA, -30.05 kcal/mol and MMPBSA, -25.95 kcal/mol), were dominated mainly by vigorous van der Waals energy. Further affirmation was achieved by WaterSwap absolute binding free energy that concluded all the complexes in good equilibrium and stability (Mpro (mean, -22.44 kcal/mol), PLpro (mean, -25.46 kcal/mol), and Nucleocapsid (mean, -23.30 kcal/mol)). These promising findings substantially advance our understanding of how natural compounds could be shaped to counter SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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