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Protease Inhibitors

"Protease Inhibitors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Compounds which inhibit or antagonize biosynthesis or actions of proteases (ENDOPEPTIDASES).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Protease Inhibitors" by people in this website by year, and whether "Protease Inhibitors" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Protease Inhibitors" by people in Profiles.
  1. Discovery of a potent covalent inhibitor that unusually distorts the catalytic dyad of SARS-CoV-2 main protease. J Virol. 2025 Oct 23; 99(10):e0065825.
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  2. Azapeptide-Based SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors: Design, Synthesis, Enzyme Inhibition, Structural Determination, and Antiviral Activity. J Med Chem. 2025 Sep 25; 68(18):19339-19376.
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  3. CROI 2025: Acute and Postacute COVID-19. Top Antivir Med. 2025 Jun 30; 33(3):555-568.
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  4. Computational and Experimental Study of the Conformational Variation of the Catalytic Residue His41 of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease. J Phys Chem B. 2025 May 29; 129(21):5198-5206.
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  5. Structure-based discovery of highly bioavailable, covalent, broad-spectrum coronavirus MPro inhibitors with potent in vivo efficacy. Sci Adv. 2025 04 25; 11(17):eadt7836.
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  6. On-Resin Assembly of Macrocyclic Inhibitors of Cryptococcus neoformans May1: A Pathway to Potent Antifungal Agents. J Med Chem. 2025 May 08; 68(9):9623-9637.
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  7. Structure Elucidation, Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Distribution, and Biological Activities of Ketomemicin Analogs in Salinispora. Mar Drugs. 2025 Mar 14; 23(3).
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  8. Discovery of Nirmatrelvir (PF-07321332): A Potent, Orally Active Inhibitor of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2) Main Protease. J Med Chem. 2025 Apr 10; 68(7):7003-7030.
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  9. Design, Synthesis, and Unprecedented Interactions of Covalent Dipeptide-Based Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease and Its Variants Displaying Potent Antiviral Activity. J Med Chem. 2025 Feb 13; 68(3):3626-3652.
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  10. Development of small molecule non-covalent coronavirus 3CL protease inhibitors from DNA-encoded chemical library screening. Nat Commun. 2025 01 02; 16(1):152.
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