| Literature DB >> 33597888 |
Hylemariam Mihiretie Mengist1,2,3, Daniel Mekonnen2,4, Ahmed Mohammed2, Ronghua Shi2, Tengchuan Jin1,2,5.
Abstract
Effective, safe, and pharmacokinetically suitable drugs are urgently needed to curb the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The main protease or 3C-like protease (Mpro or 3CLpro) of SARS-CoV-2 is considered an important target to formulate potent drugs corresponding to its crucial role in virus replication and maturation in addition to its relatively conserved active site. Promising baseline data on the potency and safety of drugs targeting SARS-CoV-2 Mpro are currently available. However, preclinical and clinical data on the pharmacokinetic profiles of these drugs are very limited. This review discusses the potency, safety, and pharmacokinetic profiles of potential inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro and forward directions on the development of future studies focusing on COVID-19 therapeutics.Entities:
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; inhibitors; main protease; pharmacokinetics; potency; safety
Year: 2021 PMID: 33597888 PMCID: PMC7883113 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2020.630500
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Pharmacol ISSN: 1663-9812 Impact factor: 5.810