Xiong Xie, Qiaoshuai Lan, Jinyi Zhao, Sulin Zhang, Lu Liu, Yumin Zhang, Wei Xu, Maolin Shao, Jingjing Peng, Shuai Xia, Yan Zhu, Keke Zhang, Xianglei Zhang, Ruxue Zhang, Jian Li, Wenhao Dai, Zhen Ge, Shulei Hu, Changyue Yu, Jiang Wang, Dakota Ma, Mingyue Zheng, Haitao Yang, Gengfu Xiao, Zihe Rao, Lu Lu, Leike Zhang, Fang Bai, Yao Zhao, Shibo Jiang, Hong Liu
Respiratory disease caused by coronavirus infection remains a global health crisis. Although several SARS-CoV-2-specific vaccines and direct-acting antivirals are available, their efficacy on emerging coronaviruses in the future, including SARS-CoV-2 variants, might be compromised. Host-targeting antivirals provide preventive and therapeutic strategies to overcome resistance and manage future outbreak of emerging coronaviruses. Cathepsin L (CTSL) and calpain-1 (CAPN1) are host cysteine proteases which play crucial roles in coronaviral entrance into cells and infection-related immune response...
March 6, 2024: Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy