Functional and druggability analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome

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    However, protease inhibitors might lack selectivity [24], and the efficacy of nucleoside inhibitors targeting the RdRp is limited by the ExoN proofreading machine and non-mutagenic doses limitations, and thus alternative or complementary therapeutic strategies to fight COVID-19 are needed. In this work we stress the fact that besides the replicative and structural proteins, all of which are critical for the viral cycle, other proteins also have vital functions, and thus would constitute excellent targets for drug discovery. The helicase (nsp13), and methyl-transferases N7-Mtase (nsp14) and 2′-O-MTase (nsp16) contribute to genome stability through their involvement in the capping process; the ExoN (nsp14) is responsible for proofreading, and thus for the extremely low mutation rate and nucleoside analogs resistanse of SARS-CoV-2; several nsp3 domains, such as SUD, NAB and Ub1 are known to bind ssRNA; the NendoU (nsp15) cleaves polyuridines produced during the priming of the poly(A) ssRNA during replication, which helps to dampen dsRNA MDA5-dependent antiviral IFN responses [125]; nsp9 acts as a hub that binds ssRNA and interacts with nsp8, the N protein, and several host nuclear pore proteins [15,130,131]; the ADRP and PLpro attenuate the effects of IFN and cytokine signaling components that induce antiviral and inflammatory responses [54,142]; orf3a and orf7a induce NFκB, IL-8, and JNK, promoting inflammatory responses [198], while orf3a also induces the production of fibrino...

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