Ethacridine inhibits SARS-CoV-2 by inactivating viral particles.

The respiratory disease COVID-19 is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Here we report the discovery of ethacridine as a potent drug against SARS-CoV-2 (EC50 ~ 0.08 μM). Ethacridine was identified via high-throughput screening of an FDA-approved drug library in living cells using a fluorescence as...

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Main Authors: Xiaoquan Li, Peter V Lidsky, Yinghong Xiao, Chien-Ting Wu, Miguel Garcia-Knight, Junjiao Yang, Tsuguhisa Nakayama, Jayakar V Nayak, Peter K Jackson, Raul Andino, Xiaokun Shu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-09-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009898&type=printable
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