Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Chemistry World: Drugs, the permanent way

Exceptions to a long-held rule against chemically bonding to biological targets are powering new cancer medicines, finds Andy Extance

https://www.chemistryworld.com/feature/covalent-inhibitor-drugs/2500494.article

An orally bioavailable SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor exhibits improved affinity and reduced sensitivity to mutations

Michael Westberg  et al. Sci. Transl. Med. 16 , eadi0979 (2024). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adi0979 Inhibitors of the severe acute respirator...