Abstract
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) can cause critical conditions that require efficient therapeutics. Several medicines are derived from plants, and researchers are seeking natural compounds to ameliorate the symptoms of COVID-19. Viral enzymes are popular targets of antiviral medicines; the genome of coronaviruses encodes several enzymes, including RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and viral proteases. Various screening systems have been developed to identify potential inhibitors. In this review, we describe the natural compounds that have been shown to exert inhibitory effects on coronavirus enzymes. Although computer-aided molecular structural studies have predicted several antiviral compound candidates, the current review focuses on experimentally proven natural compounds.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 347-354 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Microbiology |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 Mar |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (2019R1A2C1006511). We tried to include most experimental results of natural compounds acting as coronavirus inhibitors; however, some results may be missing.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Microbiological Society of Korea.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Microbiology
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology