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. 2022 Dec 19;9(35):2270222. doi: 10.1002/advs.202270222

Gossypol Broadly Inhibits Coronaviruses by Targeting RNA‐Dependent RNA Polymerases (Adv. Sci. 35/2022)

Wenjing Wang, Wenkang Li, Zhiyuan Wen, Chong Wang, Weilong Liu, Yufang Zhang, Juncheng Liu, Tianze Ding, Lei Shuai, Gongxun Zhong, Zhigao Bu, Lingbo Qu, Maozhi Ren, Fuguang Li
PMCID: PMC9762278

Abstract

RNA‐Dependent RNA Polymerase

In article number 2203499, Zhigao Bu, Lingbo Qu, Maozhi Ren, Fuguang Li, and co‐workers report that gossypol, a natural product from cotton plant, can efficiently inhibit SARS‐CoV‐2 variants by targeting RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). Moreover, the RdRp inhibitor gossypol shows broad‐spectrum antiviral activity against the examined coronaviruses from the four main phylogenetic branches alphacoronaviruses, betacoronaviruses, gammacoronaviruses, and deltacoronaviruses.

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