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Investigation of small molecule inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease by all-atom microsecond modelling, PELE Monte Carlo simulations, and in vitro activity inhibition

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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
卷 788, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2021.139294

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Coronavirus; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Papain-like protease; GRL0617; Hypericin; Molecular modelling

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  1. McCord Research (Iowa, USA)
  2. Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
  3. Australian Government

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This study finds that hypericin may have antiviral effects against SARS-CoV-2 by inhibiting viral replication through binding to the PLpro protease. Although less potent than the known inhibitor GRL-0617, hypericin still shows inhibitory effects on the protease and deubiquitinating activities of PLpro.
The SARS-CoV-2 papain-like (PLpro) protease is essential for viral replication. We investigated potential antiviral effects of hypericin relative to the well-known noncovalent PLpro inhibitor GRL-0617. Molecular dynamics and PELE Monte Carlo simulations highlight favourable binding of hypericin and GRL-0617 to the naphthalene binding pocket of PLpro. Although not potent as GRL-0617 (45.8 vs 1.6 mu M for protease activity, respectively), in vitro fluorogenic enzymatic assays with hypericin show concentration-dependent inhibition of both PLpro pro-tease and deubiquitinating activities. Given its use in supplementations and the FDA conditional approval of a synthetic version, further evaluation of hypericin as a potential SARS-CoV-2 antiviral is warranted.

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