IL28B is An Irrelevant Prognostic Factor for HCV in the Era of Highly Effective DAAs

Hashmi, Mehmood Ahmed Husnain; Husnain, Mehmood Ahmed; Farooq, Amjad; Khalid, Kashaf; Shafique, Sobia; Adeel, Khaqan; Kazmi, Syed Ali Raza; Shakoori, Abdul Rauf

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“…Research on phytochemical constituents of medicinal plants in various ethnobotany, is necessary to ascertain their ethnomedicinal claims and serve as useful reservoir of active pharmaceutical ingredients or as template for novel synthesis in modern drug discovery. Research efforts are shifting to identification of medicinal plants with antiviral properties against Fowl pox virus (Afolami et al, 2019), echovirus (Ogbole et al, 2018), hepatitis B virus (Shin et al, 2005), herpes simplex virus type 2 (Zadeh et al, 2007), Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (Wan and Chen et al, 2014;Titov et al, 2011), many other viruses (Efferth, 2018;Pinto et al, 2012) and more specifically anti-SARS-CoV properties (Schwarz et al, 2011;Ho et al, 2007).…”

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Network analysis, sequence and structure dynamics of key proteins of coronavirus and human host, and molecular docking of selected phytochemicals of nine medicinal plants

Fatoki

Ibraheem

Ogunyemi

et al. 2020

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

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The novel coronavirus of 2019 (nCoV-19) has become a pandemic, affecting over 205 nations with over 7,410,000 confirmed cases which has resulted to over 418,000 deaths worldwide. This study aimed to identify potential therapeutic compounds and phytochemicals of medicinal plants that have potential to modulate the expression network of genes that are involve in SARS-CoV-2 pathology in human host and to understand the dynamics key proteins involved in the virus-host interactions. The method used include gene network analysis, molecular docking, and sequence and structure dynamics simulations. The results identified DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) and Protein kinase CK2 as key players in SARS-CoV-2 lifecycle. Among the predicted drugs compounds, clemizole, monorden, spironolactone and tanespimycin showed high binding energies; among the studied repurposing compounds, remdesivir, simeprevir and valinomycin showed high binding energies; among the predicted acidic compounds, acetylursolic acid and hardwickiic acid gave high binding energies; while among the studied anthraquinones and glycosides compounds, ellagitannin and friedelanone showed high binding energies against 3-Chymotrypsin-like protease (3CL pro), Papain-like protease (PL pro), helicase (nsp13), RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (nsp12), 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase (nsp16) of SARS-CoV-2 and DNA-PK and CK2alpha in human. The order of affinity for CoV proteins is 5Y3E > 6NUS > 6JYT > 2XYR > 3VB6. Finally, medicinal plants with phytochemicals such as caffeine, ellagic acid, quercetin and their derivatives could possibly remediate COVID-19.

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