In Silico Identification of Potential Inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease among a PubChem Database of Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus 3CLPro Inhibitors

Autor: Laurent Soulère, Thibaut Barbier, Yves Queneau
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Biomolecules, Vol 13, Iss 6, p 956 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2218-273X
DOI: 10.3390/biom13060956
Popis: Remarkable structural homologies between the main proteases of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) were revealed by comparative amino-acid sequence and 3D structural alignment. Assessing whether reported IBV 3CLPro inhibitors could also interact with SARS-CoV-2 has been undertaken in silico using a PubChem BioAssay database of 388 compounds active on the avian infectious bronchitis virus 3C-like protease. Docking studies of this database on the SARS-CoV-2 protease resulted in the identification of four covalent inhibitors targeting the catalytic cysteine residue and five non-covalent inhibitors for which the binding was further investigated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Predictive ADMET calculations on the nine compounds suggest promising pharmacokinetic properties.
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