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. 2022 Sep 22:10.1111/cbdd.14136. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1111/cbdd.14136

TABLE 2.

Drug repurposing studies and computational DR for coronavirus disease (COVID‐19), drug discovery, and various diseases

Drug(s)/name Screening technique Target protein No. of drugs Data Bank Refs.
Carfilzomib, Eravacycline, Valrubicin, Lopinavir, and Elbasvir Docking Mpro 2201 DrugBank Wang (2020)
Paritaprevir, Simeprevir, Ledipasvir, Glycyrrhizic acid, TMC‐310911 Docking 3CLpro, PLpro, cleavage site, HR1 and RBD 2471

Protein data bank

Drugbank

Mahdian et al. (2020)
Binifibrate, bamifylline, rilmazafon, afatinib, ezetimibe, macimorelin, and acetate E‐pharmacophore based virtual screening, structure based virtual screening 3CLpro 4600 SuperDRUG2 database Arun et al. (2021)
Sovaprevir, Danoprevir, Samatasvir, Ritonavir, Rebamipide, Zabofloxacin, Pralatrexate, … Docking Mpro, PLpro, and the S‐protein 11,552

Protein data bank

Drugbank, ChEMBL

DrugCentral database of approved drugs, Selleck Chemicals library

Cavasotto and Di Filippo (2021)
Melatonin, Mercaptopurine, Sirolimus Network‐based Membrane (M), spike (S), nucleocapsid (N) proteins envelope (E), and Replicase complex (ORF1ab) nucleocapsid proteins 2000 DrugBank Database (TTD), PharmGKB, ChEMBL, BindingDB89, and IUPHAR/BPS Guide Pharmacology Zhou et al. (2020)
Penciclovir, Ribavirin, and Zanamivir Docking Spike protein, isolate spike protein RBD, NSP 10, NSP 16, main protease, and RdRp polymerase 48 FDA and SUS databanks Grahl et al. (2021)
Drug(s)/Name Computation Target protein No. of drugs Data Bank Refs.

Paromomycin

Phensuximide

Magnesium ascorbate

Tizanidine

Cefotiam

Voriconazole, Tobramycin

Kanamycin,

Docking Mpro 1490

UniProt

Drugbank

Sencanski et al. (2020)

Lopinavir,

Asunaprevir,

Indinavir,

Ritonavir,

Remdesivir,

Methisazone

Paritaprevir

Docking

Protease inhibitor

Inhibits viral DNA polymerase

Protease inhibitor

HIV protease inhibitor

Viral RNA polymerase

Inhibits mRNA and protein synthesis

Inhibitor of the nonstructural protein 3‐4A

(NS3/4A) serine protease

61

PubChem database

Protein Data Bank (http:// www.rscb.org)

Shah et al. (2020)

Talampicillin, Lurasidone, Rubitecan and Loprazolam

Talampicillin, Lurasidone, ZINC000015988935, ZINC000103558522 (drug‐like molecules)

Docking Mpro and TMPRSS2 enzymes

4500

30,000 (drug‐like molecules)

ChEMBL, DrugBank and Selleckchem

ZINC15 database

Elmezayen et al. (2020)
Darunavir, Nelfinavir and Saquinavir

(MOE) Docking

Molecular Operating Environment

Mpro >2000 drugbank.ca Farag et al. (2020)

Remdesivir, Saquinavir and Darunavir

Small molecules: flavone and coumarin derivatives

(MOE) Docking

Molecular dynamics simulation

3CLpro 16

in‐house database

RCSB Protein Data Bank

Khan et al. (2020)
Ritonavir

Docking

Molecular dynamics simulation

Mpro 18 Drug Bank Ibrahim et al. (2021)
Paritaprevir, Semeprevir, Grazoprevir Velpatasvir

Docking

Supervised machine learning

Spike protein, nucleocapsid protein, and 2′‐o‐ribose methyltransferase 1577 ZINC database Kadioglu et al. (2020)