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Structural Proteomics-Driven Targeted Design of Favipiravir-Binding Site in The RdRp of SARS-CoV-2 Unravels Susceptible Hotspots and Resistance Mutations
2021-05-20
Abstract excerpt
Favipiravir is a broad-spectrum inhibitor of viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) currently being used to manage COVID-19 in several countries. By acting as a substrate for RdRp, favipiravir gets incorporated into the nascent viral RNA and prevents strand extension. A high mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 RdRp may facilitate antigenic drift as an answer to the host immune response, thereby generating resistance of...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d0568366-212d-5a46-b80e-302ebedb4164
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202105.0492.v1
