Therapeutic potential of compounds targeting SARS-CoV-2 helicase

Matthew T.J. Halma; Mark J.A. Wever; Sanne Abeln; Didier Roche; Gijs J.L. Wuite

doi:10.3389/fchem.2022.1062352

Therapeutic potential of compounds targeting SARS-CoV-2 helicase

Matthew T.J. Halma
, Mark J.A. Wever
, Sanne Abeln
, Didier Roche
, Gijs J.L. Wuite^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The economical and societal impact of COVID-19 has made the development of vaccines and drugs to combat SARS-CoV-2 infection a priority. While the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein has been widely explored as a drug target, the SARS-CoV-2 helicase (nsp13) does not have any approved medication. The helicase shares 99.8% similarity with its SARS-CoV-1 homolog and was shown to be essential for viral replication. This review summarizes and builds on existing research on inhibitors of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 helicases. Our analysis on the toxicity and specificity of these compounds, set the road going forward for the repurposing of existing drugs and the development of new SARS-CoV-2 helicase inhibitors.

Original language	English
Article number	1062352
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Frontiers in Chemistry
Volume	10
Early online date	6 Dec 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2022.1062352
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 859853.

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Halma, Wever, Abeln, Roche and Wuite.

Funding

This project has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie grant agreement No 859853.

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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions	859853
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

COVID-19
drug repurposing
helicase
natural products
nsp13
SARS-CoV-2
small-molecule inhibitors

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