Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Development of optimized drug-like small molecule inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease for treatment of COVID-19

  • Hengrui Liu,
  • Sho Iketani,
  • Arie Zask,
  • Nisha Khanizeman,
  • Eva Bednarova,
  • Farhad Forouhar,
  • Brandon Fowler,
  • Seo Jung Hong,
  • Hiroshi Mohri,
  • Manoj S. Nair,
  • Yaoxing Huang,
  • Nicholas E. S. Tay,
  • Sumin Lee,
  • Charles Karan,
  • Samuel J. Resnick,
  • Colette Quinn,
  • Wenjing Li,
  • Henry Shion,
  • Xin Xia,
  • Jacob D. Daniels,
  • Michelle Bartolo-Cruz,
  • Marcelo Farina,
  • Presha Rajbhandari,
  • Christopher Jurtschenko,
  • Matthew A. Lauber,
  • Thomas McDonald,
  • Michael E. Stokes,
  • Brett L. Hurst,
  • Tomislav Rovis,
  • Alejandro Chavez,
  • David D. Ho,
  • Brent R. Stockwell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29413-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Small molecule drugs promise to remain a valuable tool in controlling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Here the authors describe optimized drug-like small molecule inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease for potential treatment of COVID-19.