Affiliation:
1. Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut-250005, India
Abstract
The article highlights an up-to-date progress in studies on structural and the remedial aspects
of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV, renamed as SARS-CoV-2, leading to the disease COVID-19, a pandemic.
In general, all CoVs including SARS-CoV-2 are spherical positive single-stranded RNA viruses
containing spike (S) protein, envelope (E) protein, nucleocapsid (N) protein, and membrane (M) protein,
where S protein has a Receptor-binding Domain (RBD) that mediates the binding to host cell receptor,
Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2). The article details the repurposing of some drugs to be tried
for COVID-19 and presents the status of vaccine development so far. Besides drugs and vaccines, the
role of Convalescent Plasma (CP) therapy to treat COVID-19 is also discussed.
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Subject
Drug Discovery,General Medicine
Cited by
6 articles.
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