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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2024

Discovery of First-in-Class PROTAC Degraders of SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease.

Yugendar R Alugubelli, Jing Xiao, Kaustav Khatua, Sathish Kumar, Long Sun, Yuying Ma, Xinyu R Ma, Veerabhadra R Vulupala, Sandeep Atla, Lauren R Blankenship and 5 more

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Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
14.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yugendar R AlugubelliTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Jing XiaoTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Kaustav KhatuaTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Sathish KumarDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Long SunDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4889-4624
Yuying MaTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Xinyu R MaTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4798-6095
Veerabhadra R VulupalaTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Sandeep AtlaTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Lauren R BlankenshipTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Demonta ColemanTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Xuping XieDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, United States.
Benjamin W NeumanDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1240-8954
Wenshe Ray LiuTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7078-6534
Shiqing XuTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6260-9290
Texas A&M University · USThe University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

Use of the Noncanonical Amino Acid Mutagenesis Technique in Combination with Other Approaches to Study Functions of Posttranslational Lysine Modifications in ProteinsR35GM145351 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI Wenshe Ray Liu · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
Development of fluorogenic and chemiluminogenic main protease substrates for cellular and in vivo imaging of SARS-CoV-2R21EB032983 · NIBIB · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, WENSHE RAY · 2022 to 2023
$411k
The Development of Reversible Covalent PROTAC Technology as a New Anti-COVID-19 StrategyR21AI164088 · NIAID · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI XU, SHIQING · 2021 to 2022
$406k
Development of PROTACs Targeting Papain-like Protease as Broad-Spectrum Anti-Coronavirus TherapeuticsR21AI166521 · NIAID · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI XU, SHIQING · 2022 to 2023
$405k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI164088NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI166521NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB032983NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM145351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have witnessed three coronavirus (CoV) outbreaks in the past two decades, including the COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. Main protease (M

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Antiviral AgentsCoronavirus 3C ProteasesProteolysisSARS-CoV-2A549 CellsCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug DiscoveryHEK293 CellsHumansAntiviral AgentsCoronavirus 3C Proteases

Identifiers

PMID38608245
PMCPMC11056980
OpenAlexW4394770600

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