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SUBMITTER: Garcia-Carceles J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8802305 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
García-Cárceles Javier J Caballero Elena E Gil Carmen C Martínez Ana A
Journal of medicinal chemistry 20210510 2
Viral infections are a major health problem; therefore, there is an urgent need for novel therapeutic strategies. Antivirals used to target proteins encoded by the viral genome usually enhance drug resistance generated by the virus. A potential solution may be drugs acting at host-based targets since viruses are dependent on numerous cellular proteins and phosphorylation events that are crucial during their life cycle. Repurposing existing kinase inhibitors as antiviral agents would help in the ...[more]