Laboratório de Biologia Molecular, Universidade de Pernambuco, Garanhuns, PE, Brazil; Laboratório de Química e Inovação Terapêutica (LQIT) - Departamento de Antibióticos, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil; Laboratório de Imunopatologia Keizo Asami (LIKA), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Laboratório de Química e Inovação Terapêutica (LQIT) - Departamento de Antibióticos, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Bioorg Med Chem. 2020 Dec 1;28(23):115757. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2020.115757. Epub 2020 Sep 10.
Urgent treatments, in any modality, to fight SARS-CoV-2 infections are desired by society in general, by health professionals, by Estate-leaders and, mainly, by the scientific community, because one thing is certain amidst the numerous uncertainties regarding COVID-19: knowledge is the means to discover or to produce an effective treatment against this global disease. Scientists from several areas in the world are still committed to this mission, as shown by the accelerated scientific production in the first half of 2020 with over 25,000 published articles related to the new coronavirus. Three great lines of publications related to COVID-19 were identified for building this article: The first refers to knowledge production concerning the virus and pathophysiology of COVID-19; the second regards efforts to produce vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 at a speed without precedent in the history of science; the third comprehends the attempts to find a marketed drug that can be used to treat COVID-19 by drug repurposing. In this review, the drugs that have been repurposed so far are grouped according to their chemical class. Their structures will be presented to provide better understanding of their structural similarities and possible correlations with mechanisms of actions. This can help identifying anti-SARS-CoV-2 promising therapeutic agents.
社会各界人士,包括卫生专业人员、医疗保健领域的决策者,以及科学界,都迫切希望能够找到治疗 SARS-CoV-2 感染的方法。在 COVID-19 众多的不确定因素中,有一点是确定的:知识是发现或研发针对这种全球性疾病的有效治疗方法的手段。正如 2020 年上半年发表的 25000 多篇与新冠病毒相关的文章所展示的那样,来自世界各地的科学家们仍在为此努力。为了撰写这篇文章,我们确定了三个与 COVID-19 相关的重要出版领域:第一个领域是关于病毒和 COVID-19 病理生理学的知识生产;第二个领域是努力以科学史上前所未有的速度研发针对 SARS-CoV-2 的疫苗;第三个领域则包括试图寻找一种已上市药物,通过药物再利用来治疗 COVID-19。在这篇综述中,根据药物的化学结构对迄今为止已被重新利用的药物进行了分类。将展示这些药物的结构,以便更好地理解它们在结构上的相似性和与作用机制的可能相关性。这有助于识别有希望成为抗 SARS-CoV-2 的治疗药物。