Shanmugam, Anusuya and Venkattappan, Anbazhagan and Gromiha, M. Michael
(2022)
Structure based Drug Designing Approaches in SARS-CoV-2 Spike Inhibitor Design.
CURRENT TOPICS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, 22.0 (29).
pp. 2396-2409.
ISSN 1568-0266
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Abstract
The COVID-19 outbreak and the pandemic situation have hastened the research community to design a novel drug and vaccine against its causative organism, the SARS-CoV-2. The spike glycoprotein present on the surface of this pathogenic organism plays an immense role in viral entry and antigenicity. Hence, it is considered an important drug target in COVID-19 drug design. Several three-dimensional crystal structures of this SARS-CoV-2 spike protein have been identified and deposited in the Protein DataBank during the pandemic period. This accelerated the research in computer-aided drug designing, especially in the field of structure-based drug designing. This review summarizes various structure-based drug design approaches applied to this SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and its findings. Specifically, it is focused on different structure-based approaches such as molecular docking, high-throughput virtual screening, molecular dynamics simulation, drug repurposing, and target-based pharmacophore modelling and screening. These structural approaches have been applied to different ligands and datasets such as FDA-approved drugs, small molecular chemical compounds, chemical libraries, chemical databases, structural analogs, and natural compounds, which resulted in the prediction of spike inhibitors, spike-ACE-2 interface inhibitors, and allosteric inhibitors.
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COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Spike protein, Drug repurposing, Structure based drug designing, Molecular docking |
| Subjects: |
Chemistry > Chemistry |
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| Last Modified: |
06 Feb 2026 07:10 |
| URI: |
https://ir.vmrfdu.edu.in/id/eprint/6765 |
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