SCREENING OF POTENTIAL LIGANDS FOR THE MAIN PROTEASE OF THE SARS-COV-2 CORONAVIRUS BY USING MOLECULAR DOCKING

Abstract

An RNA virus from the Coronaviridae family, a subgroup of Coronavirinae, was first identified in late 2019 as the cause of severe acute respiratory infection in China.1 Despite the fact that clinical guidelines have been developed for the treatment of a new coronavirus infection, there are currently no specific medicine of preventing and treating a new coronavirus infection.