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ReviewApplied microbiology and biotechnology2021

Potential "biopeptidal" therapeutics for severe respiratory syndrome coronaviruses: a review of antiviral peptides, viral mechanisms, and prospective needs.

Tolulope Joshua Ashaolu, Asad Nawaz, Noman Walayat, Ibrahim Khalifa

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Review in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Harnessing Antiviral Peptides: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Translation.Current research in pharmacology and drug discovery · 2025
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  6. Protegrin-2, a potential inhibitor for targeting SARS-CoV-2 main protease MComputational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023
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  7. Theta-Defensins to Counter COVID-19 as Furin Inhibitors:Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tolulope Joshua AshaoluInstitute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9397-6357
Asad NawazJiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Noman WalayatDepartment of Food Science and Engineering, College of Ocean, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Ibrahim KhalifaFood Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Banha University, 13736, Moshtohor, Cairo, Egypt. ibrahiem.khalifa@fagr.bu.edu.eg.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although great advances have been made on large-scale manufacturing of vaccines and antiviral-based drugs, viruses persist as the major cause of human diseases nowadays. The recent pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) mounts a lot of stress on the healthcare sector and the scientific society to search continuously for novel components with antiviral possibility. Herein, we narrated the different tactics of using biopeptides as antiviral molecules that could be used as an interesting alternative to treat COVID-19 patients. The number of peptides with antiviral effects is still low, but such peptides already displayed huge potentials to become pharmaceutically obtainable as antiviral medications. Studies showed that animal venoms, mammals, plant, and artificial sources are the main sources of antiviral peptides, when bioinformatics tools are used. This review spotlights bioactive peptides with antiviral activities against human viruses, especially the coronaviruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2 or SARS-nCOV19). We also showed the data about well-recognized peptides that are still under investigations, while presenting the most potent ones that may become medications for clinical use.

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Antiviral AgentsCOVID-19AnimalsHumansPeptidesProspective StudiesSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsPeptidesAntiviral therapeuticsBioactive peptidesCoronavirusesCOVID-19 pandemicPharmaceuticals

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PMID33876282
PMCPMC8054851

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