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. 2020 May 27;10(16):7034–7052. doi: 10.7150/thno.47406

Table 1.

In silico molecular mechanics modeling of drug interaction with SARS-CoV-2

Refs. Therapeutic agent Target (Viral subunit) Suggested drug based on the predicted binding energy
101 Commercially available antiviral drugs. Mpro, RdRp, helicase, 3'-to-5' exonuclease, endoRNAse 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase. Atazanavir against all the virus endonucleases.
20 Sofosbuvin and ribavirin, remdesvir, IDX-184 guanosine triphosphate, uracil triphoshate, cinnamaldehyde, thymoquinone. RdRp. Sofosbuvir and ribavirin, remdesivir and IDX-184 were shown to tightly bind to the target.
21 7173 purchasable drugs. Mpro. Ledipasvir or velpatasvir (minimal side effects) + Epclusa® (velpatasvir/sofosbuvir) and Harvoni® (ledipasvir/sofosbuvir) with inhibitory actions on two viral proteases.
13 Drug repurposing (ZINC database + database of traditional Chinese medicine and natural products). All the main proteins encoded by SARS-CoV-2: 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro), Spike, RdRp and PLpro. Remdesivir (GS-5734) inhibitor of RdRp. Its efficacy was verified in vitro. It is also hypothesized to inhibit Nsp3b (score=-36.5), RdRp (mfScores=-112.8), E-channel (mfScore=-125.1), and TMPRSS2 (score=-36.23, mfScores=-109.4).
102 FDA-approved drugs against viral protease + in-house database of natural and drug-like compounds of synthetic origin. Mpro FDA-approved drugs: remdesivir, saquinavir, darunavir + two natural compounds: flavone and coumarin derivatives.
103 Designed inhibitor. ACE2-Spike interface. Designed inhibitors consisting of α1+α2 helixes.
104 Designed inhibitor. Mpro. Designed drug that needs to be optimized and tested in vitro and vivo.
22 Zinc15 - Approved drugs in major jurisdictions, including the FDA, i.e. DrugBank approved. Spike protein + Mpro. Modeled the action of many approved drugs: zanamivir, indinavir, saquinavir, remdesivir (against Mpro)+flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), adeflavin (against both spike and Mpro), and coenzyme A (against spike protein).
23 Specific drug. Spike via homology modeling (template PDB: 2GHV)+spike-ACE2 interaction (template: PDB:2AjF). Cobicistat, carfilzomib and ombitasvir.
24 From a specific drug to its possible target. 20 virus protein + 22 human proteins. Development of molecular docking based webserver, namely D3Targets-2019-nCoV for target prediction (in vitro/in vivo studies), to identify: (1) the potential target proteins and their different conformations were included; (2) all the potential ligand-binding sites with volume larger than 200 A°^3; (3) correlations among some conformations or binding sites was annotated; (4) easily to be updated, and freely accessible.
25 Medicinal plant library (32, 297 potential anti-viral phytochemicals/traditional Chinese medicinal compounds). Mpro. 5,7,3',4'-tetrahydroxy-2'-(3,3-dimethylallyl) isoflavone.