Drug repurposing screen identifies masitinib as a 3CLpro inhibitor that blocks replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
N. Drayman, K. A. Jones, S.-A. Azizi, H. M. Froggatt, K. Tan, N. Ivanova Maltseva, S. Chen, V. Nicolaescu, S. Dvorkin, K. Furlong, R. S. Kathayat, M. R. Firpo, V. Mastrodomenico, E. A. Bruce, M. M. Schmidt, , S. Tay
The paper screens 1,900 drugs to find inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 replication, identifies masitinib as a 3CLpro inhibitor effective in vitro, and shows its broad anti-viral activity.
bioRxiv · Aug 31, 2020Microbiology