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Therapeutic Targets and Computational Approaches on Drug Development for COVID-19

Author(s): Anusuya Shanmugam, Nisha Muralidharan, Devadasan Velmurugan and M. Michael Gromiha*

Volume 20, Issue 24, 2020

Page: [2210 - 2220] Pages: 11

DOI: 10.2174/1568026620666200710105507

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Abstract

World Health Organization declared coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) as pandemic. Its outbreak started in China in Dec 2019 and rapidly spread all over the world. SARS-CoV-2 has infected more than 800,000 people and caused about 35,000 deaths so far, moreover, no approved drugs are available to treat COVID-19. Several investigations have been carried out to identify potent drugs for COVID-19 based on drug repurposing, potential novel compounds from ligand libraries, natural products, short peptides, and RNAseq analysis. This review is focused on three different aspects; (i) targets for drug design (ii) computational methods to identify lead compounds and (iii) drugs for COVID-19. It also covers the latest literature on various hit molecules proposed by computational methods and experimental techniques.

Keywords: Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Chymotrypsin-like protease, Papain-like protease, Polymerase, Spike protein, Drug repurposing.

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