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Elucidating the Interactions Between Heparin/Heparan Sulfate and SARS-CoV-2-Related Proteins—An Important Strategy for Developing Novel Therapeutics for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Owing to the high mortality and the spread rate, the infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 has become a major threat to public health and social economy, leading to over 70 million infections and 1. 6 million deaths to date. Since there are currently no effective therapeutic or widely available va...

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Autores principales: Yu, Mingjia, Zhang, Tianji, Zhang, Wei, Sun, Qianyun, Li, Hongmei, Li, Jin-ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7868326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33569392
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2020.628551
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author Yu, Mingjia
Zhang, Tianji
Zhang, Wei
Sun, Qianyun
Li, Hongmei
Li, Jin-ping
author_facet Yu, Mingjia
Zhang, Tianji
Zhang, Wei
Sun, Qianyun
Li, Hongmei
Li, Jin-ping
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description Owing to the high mortality and the spread rate, the infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 has become a major threat to public health and social economy, leading to over 70 million infections and 1. 6 million deaths to date. Since there are currently no effective therapeutic or widely available vaccines, it is of urgent need to look for new strategies for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection diseases. Binding of a viral protein onto cell surface heparan sulfate (HS) is generally the first step in a cascade of interaction that is required for viral entry and the initiation of infection. Meanwhile, interactions of selectins and cytokines (e.g., IL-6 and TNF-α) with HS expressed on endothelial cells are crucial in controlling the recruitment of immune cells during inflammation. Thus, structurally defined heparin/HS and their mimetics might serve as potential drugs by competing with cell surface HS for the prevention of viral adhesion and modulation of inflammatory reaction. In this review, we will elaborate coronavirus invasion mechanisms and summarize the latest advances in HS–protein interactions, especially proteins relevant to the process of coronavirus infection and subsequent inflammation. Experimental and computational techniques involved will be emphasized.
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spelling pubmed-78683262021-02-09 Elucidating the Interactions Between Heparin/Heparan Sulfate and SARS-CoV-2-Related Proteins—An Important Strategy for Developing Novel Therapeutics for the COVID-19 Pandemic Yu, Mingjia Zhang, Tianji Zhang, Wei Sun, Qianyun Li, Hongmei Li, Jin-ping Front Mol Biosci Molecular Biosciences Owing to the high mortality and the spread rate, the infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 has become a major threat to public health and social economy, leading to over 70 million infections and 1. 6 million deaths to date. Since there are currently no effective therapeutic or widely available vaccines, it is of urgent need to look for new strategies for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection diseases. Binding of a viral protein onto cell surface heparan sulfate (HS) is generally the first step in a cascade of interaction that is required for viral entry and the initiation of infection. Meanwhile, interactions of selectins and cytokines (e.g., IL-6 and TNF-α) with HS expressed on endothelial cells are crucial in controlling the recruitment of immune cells during inflammation. Thus, structurally defined heparin/HS and their mimetics might serve as potential drugs by competing with cell surface HS for the prevention of viral adhesion and modulation of inflammatory reaction. In this review, we will elaborate coronavirus invasion mechanisms and summarize the latest advances in HS–protein interactions, especially proteins relevant to the process of coronavirus infection and subsequent inflammation. Experimental and computational techniques involved will be emphasized. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7868326/ /pubmed/33569392 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2020.628551 Text en Copyright © 2021 Yu, Zhang, Zhang, Sun, Li and Li. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Molecular Biosciences
Yu, Mingjia
Zhang, Tianji
Zhang, Wei
Sun, Qianyun
Li, Hongmei
Li, Jin-ping
Elucidating the Interactions Between Heparin/Heparan Sulfate and SARS-CoV-2-Related Proteins—An Important Strategy for Developing Novel Therapeutics for the COVID-19 Pandemic
title Elucidating the Interactions Between Heparin/Heparan Sulfate and SARS-CoV-2-Related Proteins—An Important Strategy for Developing Novel Therapeutics for the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full Elucidating the Interactions Between Heparin/Heparan Sulfate and SARS-CoV-2-Related Proteins—An Important Strategy for Developing Novel Therapeutics for the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_fullStr Elucidating the Interactions Between Heparin/Heparan Sulfate and SARS-CoV-2-Related Proteins—An Important Strategy for Developing Novel Therapeutics for the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Elucidating the Interactions Between Heparin/Heparan Sulfate and SARS-CoV-2-Related Proteins—An Important Strategy for Developing Novel Therapeutics for the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short Elucidating the Interactions Between Heparin/Heparan Sulfate and SARS-CoV-2-Related Proteins—An Important Strategy for Developing Novel Therapeutics for the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort elucidating the interactions between heparin/heparan sulfate and sars-cov-2-related proteins—an important strategy for developing novel therapeutics for the covid-19 pandemic
topic Molecular Biosciences
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7868326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33569392
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2020.628551
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