@article{
author = "Senćanski, Milan and Perović, Vladimir and Milićević, Jelena and Todorović, Tamara and Prodanović, Radivoje and Veljković, Veljko and Paessler, Slobodan and Glišić, Sanja",
year = "2022",
abstract = "In the currentpandemic,findingan effectivedrugto preventortreatthe infectionis the highestpriority.A rapidand safeapproachto counteractCOVID-19is in silicodrugrepurposing.The SARS-CoV-2PLpropromotesviral replicationand modu-latesthe hostimmunesystem,resultingin inhibitionof thehostantiviralinnateimmuneresponse,and thereforeis anattractivedrugtarget.In this study,we useda combinedinsilicovirtualscreeningfor candidatesfor SARS-CoV-2PLproproteaseinhibitors.We usedthe Informationalspectrummethodappliedfor SmallMoleculesfor searchingthe Drugbankdatabasefollowedby moleculardocking.Afterin silicoscreen-ing of drugspace,we identified44 drugsas potentialSARS-CoV-2PLproinhibitorsthat we proposefor furtherexperimentaltesting.",
publisher = "Wiley-VCH",
journal = "ChemistryOpen",
title = "Identification of SARS-CoV-2 Papain-like Protease (PLpro) Inhibitors Using Combined Computational Approach",
volume = "11",
number = "2",
pages = "e202100248",
doi = "10.1002/open.202100248"
}