DockCoV2: a drug database against SARS-CoV-2

Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jan 8;49(D1):D1152-D1159. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa861.

Abstract

The current state of the COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. To fight the novel coronavirus, one of the best-known ways is to block enzymes essential for virus replication. Currently, we know that the SARS-CoV-2 virus encodes about 29 proteins such as spike protein, 3C-like protease (3CLpro), RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), Papain-like protease (PLpro), and nucleocapsid (N) protein. SARS-CoV-2 uses human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) for viral entry and transmembrane serine protease family member II (TMPRSS2) for spike protein priming. Thus in order to speed up the discovery of potential drugs, we develop DockCoV2, a drug database for SARS-CoV-2. DockCoV2 focuses on predicting the binding affinity of FDA-approved and Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI) drugs with the seven proteins mentioned above. This database contains a total of 3,109 drugs. DockCoV2 is easy to use and search against, is well cross-linked to external databases, and provides the state-of-the-art prediction results in one site. Users can download their drug-protein docking data of interest and examine additional drug-related information on DockCoV2. Furthermore, DockCoV2 provides experimental information to help users understand which drugs have already been reported to be effective against MERS or SARS-CoV. DockCoV2 is available at https://covirus.cc/drugs/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antiviral Agents / metabolism
  • Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use*
  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • COVID-19 / virology
  • COVID-19 Drug Treatment*
  • Data Curation / methods
  • Data Mining / methods
  • Databases, Pharmaceutical / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Models, Molecular
  • Pandemics
  • Protein Binding / drug effects
  • Protein Domains
  • SARS-CoV-2 / drug effects*
  • SARS-CoV-2 / metabolism
  • SARS-CoV-2 / physiology
  • Viral Proteins / chemistry
  • Viral Proteins / metabolism
  • Virus Replication / drug effects

Substances

  • Antiviral Agents
  • Viral Proteins