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Li R, Liclican A, Xu Y, Pitts J, Niu C, Zhang J, et al.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother . 2021 Jun; 65(9):e0060221. PMID: 34125594
Remdesivir (RDV; GS-5734, Veklury), the first FDA-approved antiviral to treat COVID-19, is a single-diastereomer monophosphoramidate prodrug of an adenosine analogue. RDV is taken up in the target cells and metabolized...
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Roberts R, Campbell R, Sikakana P, Sadler C, Osier M, Xu Y, et al.
Toxicol Sci . 2021 Jun; 183(1):105-116. PMID: 34117767
GS-9695 and GS-9822 are next-generation noncatalytic site integrase inhibitors (NCINIs) with significantly improved potency against human immunodeficiency virus compared with previous drugs such as BI-224436. Development stopped due to vacuolation...
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Xu Y, Barauskas O, Kim C, Babusis D, Murakami E, Kornyeyev D, et al.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother . 2020 Nov; 65(2). PMID: 33229429
Remdesivir (RDV, GS-5734), the first FDA-approved antiviral for the treatment of COVID-19, is a single diastereomer monophosphoramidate prodrug of an adenosine analogue. It is intracellularly metabolized into the active triphosphate...
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Link J, Rhee M, Tse W, Zheng J, Somoza J, Rowe W, et al.
Nature . 2020 Jul; 584(7822):614-618. PMID: 32612233
Oral antiretroviral agents provide life-saving treatments for millions of people living with HIV, and can prevent new infections via pre-exposure prophylaxis. However, some people living with HIV who are heavily...
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Liclican A, Serafini L, Xing W, Czerwieniec G, Steiner B, Wang T, et al.
Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj . 2020 Jan; 1864(4):129531. PMID: 31953125
Background: Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is a key component of the B-cell receptor (BCR) pathway and a clinically validated target for small molecule inhibitors such as ibrutinib in the treatment...
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Wong M, Samal A, Lee M, Vlach J, Novikov N, Niedziela-Majka A, et al.
J Mol Biol . 2019 Feb; 431(7):1440-1459. PMID: 30753871
Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a multifunctional serine/threonine protein kinase that transmits calcium signals in various cellular processes. CaMKII is activated by calcium-bound calmodulin (Ca/CaM) through a direct binding...
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Barauskas O, Xing W, Aguayo E, Willkom M, Sapre A, Clarke M, et al.
PLoS One . 2017 Oct; 12(10):e0185998. PMID: 29020100
Influenza polymerase is a heterotrimer protein with both endonuclease and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) activity. It plays a critical role in viral RNA replication and transcription and has been targeted...
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Xing W, Barauskas O, Kirschberg T, Niedziela-Majka A, Clarke M, Birkus G, et al.
PLoS One . 2017 Aug; 12(8):e0181969. PMID: 28809961
Influenza polymerase is a heterotrimer composed of polymerase acidic protein A (PA) and basic proteins 1 (PB1) and 2 (PB2). The endonuclease active site, located in the PA subunit, cleaves...
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Appleby T, Greenstein A, Hung M, Liclican A, Velasquez M, Villasenor A, et al.
J Biol Chem . 2017 Feb; 292(16):6810-6820. PMID: 28235803
Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP9) is a member of a large family of proteases that are secreted as inactive zymogens. It is a key regulator of the extracellular matrix, involved in...
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Feng J, Xu Y, Barauskas O, Perry J, Ahmadyar S, Stepan G, et al.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother . 2015 Nov; 60(2):806-17. PMID: 26596942
Toxicity has emerged during the clinical development of many but not all nucleotide inhibitors (NI) of hepatitis C virus (HCV). To better understand the mechanism for adverse events, clinically relevant...