guanosine-triphosphate and Pneumonia--Viral

A newly emerged Human Coronavirus (HCoV) is reported two months ago in Wuhan, China (COVID-19). Until today >2700 deaths from the 80,000 confirmed cases reported mainly in China and 40 other countries. Human to human transmission is confirmed for COVID-19 by China a month ago. Based on the World Health Organization (WHO) reports, SARS HCoV is responsible for >8000 cases with confirmed 774 deaths. Additionally, MERS HCoV is responsible for 858 deaths out of about 2500 reported cases. The current study aims to test anti-HCV drugs against COVID-19 RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp).. In this study, sequence analysis, modeling, and docking are used to build a model for Wuhan COVID-19 RdRp. Additionally, the newly emerged Wuhan HCoV RdRp model is targeted by anti-polymerase drugs, including the approved drugs Sofosbuvir and Ribavirin.. The results suggest the effectiveness of Sofosbuvir, IDX-184, Ribavirin, and Remidisvir as potent drugs against the newly emerged HCoV disease.. The present study presents a perfect model for COVID-19 RdRp enabling its testing in silico against anti-polymerase drugs. Besides, the study presents some drugs that previously proved its efficiency against the newly emerged viral infection.

Topics: Adenosine Monophosphate; Alanine; Alphacoronavirus; Amino Acid Sequence; Antiviral Agents; Betacoronavirus; Catalytic Domain; Computational Biology; Coronavirus Infections; COVID-19; COVID-19 Drug Treatment; Drug Repositioning; Guanosine Monophosphate; Guanosine Triphosphate; Humans; Molecular Docking Simulation; Pneumonia, Viral; Protein Binding; Protein Conformation, alpha-Helical; Protein Conformation, beta-Strand; Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs; Ribavirin; RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase; SARS-CoV-2; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Sofosbuvir; Thermodynamics; Uridine Triphosphate; Viral Proteins