Substrate specificity profiling of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro protease provides basis for anti-COVID-19 drug design
Wioletta Rut, Katarzyna Groborz, Linlin Zhang, Xinyuanyuan Sun, Mikolaj Zmudzinski, Rolf Hilgenfeld, Marcin Drag
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.07.981928
Abstract
In December 2019, the first cases of a novel coronavirus infection were diagnosed in Wuhan, China. Due to international travel and human-to-human transmission, the virus spread rapidly inside and outside of China. Currently, there is no effective antiviral treatment for COVID-19, therefore research efforts are focused on the rapid development of vaccines and antiviral drugs. The SARS-CoV-2 Mpro protease constitutes one of the most attractive antiviral drug targets. To address this emerging problem, we have synthesized a combinatorial library of fluorogenic substrates with glutamine in the P1 position.
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