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Study reveals strategy to create COVID-19 drugs to inhibit virus’s entry and replication – EurekAlert

A new study offers insight into designing antiviral drugs against COVID-19 by showing that some existing compounds can inhibit both the main protease (Mpro), a…

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IMAGE: Lead author Michael Sacco (sitting), a doctoral student in the USF Health Department of Molecular Medicine, with study co-principal investigator Yu Chen, PhD, in Dr. Chen’s laboratory at the University…
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Credit: Photo courtesy of USF Health/University of South Florida
TAMPA, Fla (Nov. 6, 2020) — SARS-CoV-2, the respiratory virus that causes COVID-19, attacks the body in multiple steps. Gaining entry into cells deep within the lungs and hijacking the human host cell’s machinery…

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