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: Received: 14 April 2020 / Approved: 15 April 2020 / Online: 15 April 2020 (10:00:52 CEST)
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Ranjan, A.; Chauhan, A.; Gurnani, M.; Jindal, T. Potential Phytochemicals as Efficient Protease Inhibitors of 2019-nCoV. Preprints2020, 2020040240. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0240.v1
Ranjan, A.; Chauhan, A.; Gurnani, M.; Jindal, T. Potential Phytochemicals as Efficient Protease Inhibitors of 2019-nCoV . Preprints 2020, 2020040240. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0240.v1
Ranjan, A.; Chauhan, A.; Gurnani, M.; Jindal, T. Potential Phytochemicals as Efficient Protease Inhibitors of 2019-nCoV. Preprints2020, 2020040240. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0240.v1
APA Style
Ranjan, A., Chauhan, A., Gurnani, M., & Jindal, T. (2020). Potential Phytochemicals as Efficient Protease Inhibitors of 2019-nCoV<strong> </strong>. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0240.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Ranjan, A., Manisha Gurnani and Tanu Jindal. 2020 "Potential Phytochemicals as Efficient Protease Inhibitors of 2019-nCoV<strong> </strong>" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0240.v1
Abstract
The novel coronavirus 2019 (nCov-2019/Covid-2019/2019-nCov) has become a pandemic in a very short span of time. It has caused significant loss to human lives, economy, daily life. The key development against the nCov-2019 remains apprehended when it comes to discovery of its vaccine or medicines for the treatment. Drugs used for the treatment of HIV ( inhibitors of HIV protease) are being largely used for the treatment of nCov-2019. Therefore, we conducted a study by docking a set of natural compounds with reported protease activity against HIV or SARS coronavirus against the protease of nCov-2019. The Bavachinin ranked the top among natural compounds with binding energy of -7.74±0.152 Kcal/mol, RMSD 0.823±0.024 Å, predicted pKd 5.59 and predicted dG of -7.56 Kcal/mol. The finding infers that these three compounds could have the potential to inhibit the nCov-2019 protease. The finding was supported with reputed research publications.
Keywords
COVID19 ; 2019-nCov, 3CLpro inhbitors
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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