The treatment of coronavirus COVID-19, like other viral diseases, is currently underdeveloped. This fact necessitates the search for new drugs and treatment methods that will effectively disrupt the life cycle of the virus. A big problem in the therapy of viral diseases is the ability of viruses to evade the host's immune response.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe pandemic infectious disease (Covid-19) caused by the coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) is spreading rapidly around the world. Covid-19 does an irreparable harm to the health and life of people. It also has a negative financial impact on the economies of most countries of the world.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChitosan is a naturally occurring polysaccharide derived from chitin with a wide range of uses. Phthalocyanines are macroheterocyclic compounds that have a number of useful properties such as coloring and catalytic and antioxidant activity. Phthalocyanines are able to immobilize on chitosan, forming complexes with new useful properties.
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May 2021
In this work, we analyze the latest data on the molecular docking of a range of SARS-CoV-2 proteins to protoporphyrin IX, verteporfin, and chlorin e6, as well as consider the prospects for using chlorins and porphyrins as agents for photoinactivation of the SARS2 virus.
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February 2021
In this paper was studied the interaction of deutero- and hematoporphyrin with bovine serum albumin, using various methods of physico-chemical analysis. It was established that the localization of porphyrins occurred in the IB subdomain, while hematoporphyrin interacted with the protein in a monomeric form, and deuteroporphyrin - as a J-dimer. Based on spectral studies, the affinity constants of binding albumin with porphyrins were determined, and the affinity of the protein for deuteroporphyrin appeared to be higher than for hematoporphyrin.
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