Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro protease and the in silico screening of bioactive compounds from Philippine medicinal plants as potential Mpro inhibitors

• Main Author: Villanueva, Jose Antonio B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); Phytochemicals; Medicinal plants > Philippines; Bioactive compounds; Phylogeny; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_bio/1
• Institution: De La Salle University

The novel coronavirus strain, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome- Coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), is currently spreading globally in a pandemic. There is presently no specific antiviral therapeutic agent against SARS-CoV-2 while vaccination is currently rolled out worldwide. Scientists resort to drug rep...