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Drug repositioning for COVID-19

Ting-Fu Chen, Yu-Chuan Chang, Yi Hsiao, Ko-Han Lee, Yu-Chun Hsiao, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Yi-Chin Ethan Tu, Hsuan-Cheng Huang, Chien-Yu Chenmail, Hsueh-Fen Juanmail.

 

Nucleic Acids Research, gkaa861 (2020)

https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaa861/5920447?searchresult=1

 

Abstract

The current state of the COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. To fight the novel coronavirus, one of the best-known ways is to block enzymes essential for virus replication. Currently, we know that the SARS-CoV-2 virus encodes about 29 proteins such as spike protein, 3C-like protease (3CLpro), RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), Papain-like protease (PLpro), and nucleocapsid (N) protein. SARS-CoV-2 uses human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) for viral entry and transmembrane serine protease family member II (TMPRSS2) for spike protein priming. Thus in order to speed up the discovery of potential drugs, we develop DockCoV2, a drug database for SARS-CoV-2. DockCoV2 focuses on predicting the binding affinity of FDA-approved and Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI) drugs with the seven proteins mentioned above. This database contains a total of 3,109 drugs. DockCoV2 is easy to use and search against, is well cross-linked to external databases, and provides the state-of-the-art prediction results in one site. Users can download their drug-protein docking data of interest and examine additional drug-related information on DockCoV2. Furthermore, DockCoV2 provides experimental information to help users understand which drugs have already been reported to be effective against MERS or SARS-CoV. DockCoV2 is available at https://covirus.cc/drugs/.