Publications

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READDI-AC discoveries, supported by NIH award U1AI171292, are shared with the broader community through scientific publications, which can be found below:

Manuscripts in Press

TitleAuthorsJournal
Allosteric Binders of ACE2 Are Promising Anti-SARS-CoV-2 AgentsHochuli, Joshua E; Jain, Sankalp; Melo-Filho, Cleber; Sessions, Zoe L; Bobrowski, Tesia; Choe, Jun; Zheng, Johnny; Eastman, Richard; Talley, Daniel C; Rai, Ganesha; Simeonov, Anton; Tropsha, Alexander; Muratov, Eugene N; Baljinnyam, Bolormaa; Zakharov, Alexey VACS Pharmacology & Translational Science
Conserved coronavirus proteins as targets of broad-spectrum antivirals.Melo-Filho, Cleber C; Bobrowski, Tesia; Martin, Holli-Joi; Sessions, Zoe; Popov, Konstantin I; Moorman, Nathaniel J; Baric, Ralph S; Muratov, Eugene N; Tropsha, AlexanderAntiviral Research
Discovery of New Zika Protease and Polymerase Inhibitors through the Open Science Collaboration Project OpenZikaMottin, Melina; de Paula Sousa, Bruna Katiele; de Moraes Roso Mesquita, Nathalya Cristina; de Oliveira, Ketllyn Irene Zagato; Noske, Gabriela Dias; Sartori, Geraldo Rodrigues; de Oliveira Albuquerque, Aline; Urbina, Fabio; Puhl, Ana C; Moreira-Filho, José Teófilo; Souza, Guilherme E; Guido, Rafael V C; Muratov, Eugene; Neves, Bruno Junior; Martins da Silva, João Hermínio; Clark, Alex E; Siqueira-Neto, Jair L; Perryman, Alexander L; Oliva, Glaucius; Ekins, Sean; Andrade, Carolina HortaJournal of Chemical Information and Modeling
SARS-CoV-2 infection produces chronic pulmonary epithelial and immune cell dysfunction with fibrosis in mice.Dinnon 3rd, Kenneth H; Leist, Sarah R; Okuda, Kenichi; Dang, Hong; Fritch, Ethan J; Gully, Kendra L; De la Cruz, Gabriela; Evangelista, Mia D; Asakura, Takanori; Gilmore, Rodney C; Hawkins, Padraig; Nakano, Satoko; West, Ande; Schäfer, Alexandra; Gralinski, Lisa E; Everman, Jamie L; Sajuthi, Satria P; Zweigart, Mark R; Dong, Stephanie; McBride, Jennifer; Cooley, Michelle R; Hines, Jesse B; Love, Miriya K; Groshong, Steve D; VanSchoiack, Alison; Phelan, Stefan J; Liang, Yan; Hether, Tyler; Leon, Michael; Zumwalt, Ross E; Barton, Lisa M; Duval, Eric J; Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay; Stroberg, Edana; Borczuk, Alain; Thorne, Leigh B; Sakthivel, Muthu K; Lee, Yueh Z; Hagood, James S; Mock, Jason R; Seibold, Max A; O'Neal, Wanda K; Montgomery, Stephanie A; Boucher, Richard C; Baric, Ralph SScience Translational Medicine
Small Molecule Antiviral Compound Collection (SMACC): a database to support the discovery of broad-spectrum antiviral drug molecules.Martin, Holli-Joi; Melo-Filho, Cleber C; Korn, Daniel; Eastman, Richard T; Rai, Ganesha; Simeonov, Anton; Zakharov, Alexey V; Muratov, Eugene; Tropsha, AlexanderAntiviral Research
A low-background, fluorescent assay to evaluate inhibitors of diverse viral proteases.Leonard, Rebecca A; Rao, Vishwas N; Bartlett, Alexandria; Froggatt, Heather M; Luftig, Micah A; Heaton, Brook E; Heaton, Nicholas SJournal of Virology
A MERS-CoV antibody neutralizes a pre-emerging group 2c bat coronavirus.Tse, Longping V; Hou, Yixuan J; McFadden, Elizabeth; Lee, Rhianna E; Scobey, Trevor D; Leist, Sarah R; Martinez, David R; Meganck, Rita M; Schäfer, Alexandra; Yount, Boyd L; Mascenik, Teresa; Powers, John M; Randell, Scott H; Zhang, Yi; Wang, Lingshu; Mascola, John; McLellan, Jason S; Baric, Ralph SScience Translational Medicine
Clinical and Translational Pharmacology Considerations for Anti-infectives Approved Under the FDA Animal Rule.Temrikar, Zaid H; Golden, Jennifer E; Jonsson, Colleen B; Meibohm, BerndClinical Pharmacokinetics
Efficacy of the oral nucleoside prodrug GS-5245 (Obeldesivir) against SARS-CoV-2 and coronaviruses with pandemic potential.Martinez, David R; Moreira, Fernando R; Zweigart, Mark R; Gully, Kendra L; De la Cruz, Gabriela; Brown, Ariane J; Adams, Lily E; Catanzaro, Nicholas; Yount, Boyd; Baric, Thomas J; Mallory, Michael L; Conrad, Helen; May, Samantha R; Dong, Stephanie; Scobey, D Trevor; Montgomery, Stephanie A; Perry, Jason; Babusis, Darius; Barrett, Kimberly T; Nguyen, Anh-Hoa; Nguyen, Anh-Quan; Kalla, Rao; Bannister, Roy; Bilello, John P; Feng, Joy Y; Cihlar, Tomas; Baric, Ralph S; Mackman, Richard L; Schäfer, Alexandra; Sheahan, Timothy PScience Translational Medicine
Host range, transmissibility and antigenicity of a pangolin coronavirus.Hou, Yixuan J; Chiba, Shiho; Leist, Sarah R; Meganck, Rita M; Martinez, David R; Schäfer, Alexandra; Catanzaro, Nicholas J; Sontake, Vishwaraj; West, Ande; Edwards, Catlin E; Yount, Boyd; Lee, Rhianna E; Gallant, Samuel C; Zost, Seth J; Powers, John; Adams, Lily; Kong, Edgar F; Mattocks, Melissa; Tata, Aleksandra; Randell, Scott H; Tata, Purushothama R; Halfmann, Peter; Crowe Jr, James E; Kawaoka, Yoshihiro; Baric, Ralph SNature Microbiology
Lies and Liabilities: Computational Assessment of High-Throughput Screening Hits to Identify Artifact CompoundsAlves, Vinicius M; Yasgar, Adam; Wellnitz, James; Rai, Ganesha; Rath, Marielle; Braga, Rodolpho C; Capuzzi, Stephen J; Simeonov, Anton; Muratov, Eugene N; Zakharov, Alexey V; Tropsha, AlexanderJournal of Medicinal Chemistry
Praemonitus praemunitus: can we forecast and prepare for future viral disease outbreaks?Sessions, Zoe; Bobrowski, Tesia; Martin, Holli-Joi; Beasley, Jon-Michael T; Kothari, Aneri; Phares, Trevor; Li, Michael; Alves, Vinicius M; Scotti, Marcus T; Moorman, Nathaniel J; Baric, Ralph; Tropsha, Alexander; Muratov, Eugene NFEMS Microbiology Reviews
A nano-luciferase expressing human coronavirus OC43 for countermeasure development.Diefenbacher, Meghan V; Baric, Thomas J; Martinez, David R; Baric, Ralph S; Catanzaro, Nicholas J; Sheahan, Timothy PVirus Research
An oral non-covalent non-peptidic inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro ameliorates viral replication and pathogenesis in vivoNian E. Zhou, Su Tang, Xuelin Bian, Maloy K. Parai, Inna V. Krieger, Armando Flores, Pradeep K. Jaiswal, Radha Bam, Jeremy L. Wood, Zhe Shi1, Laura J. Stevens, Trevor Scobey, Meghan V. Diefenbacher, Fernando R. Moreira, Thomas J. Baric, Arjun Acharya, Joonyoung Shin, Manish M. Rathi, Karen C. Wolff, Laura Riva, Malina A. Bakowski, Case W. McNamara, Nicholas J. Catanzaro, Rachel L. Graham, David C. Schultz, Sara Cherry, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Peter J. Halfmann, Ralph S. Baric, Mark R. Denison, Timothy P. Sheahan*, James C. Sacchettini*.Co-crresponding*Cell Reports
Dihydropyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrazin-4(5H)-ones as Cyclic Products of β-Amidomethyl Vinyl Sulfone Alphavirus Cysteine Protease Inhibitors. Ghoshal A, Magalhães ÁF, Asressu KH, Hossain MA, Todd MH, Willson TM.Pharmaceuticals
Disparate SARS-CoV-2 Infection Outcomes Abound, but What Makes SARS-CoV-2 Bound for Rebound?Timothy P. SheahanJournal of Infectious Diseases
HIt Discovery using docking ENriched by GEnerative Modeling (HIDDEN GEM): A novel computational workflow for accelerated virtual screening of ultra-large chemical libraries.Popov, Konstantin I; Wellnitz, James; Maxfield, Travis; Tropsha, AlexanderMolecular Informatics
Identification of a cell-active chikungunya virus nsP2 protease inhibitor using a covalent fragment-based screening approach Merten, E.M., Sears, J.D., Leisner, T.M., Hardy, P.B., Ghoshal, A., Hossain, M.A., Asressu, K.H., Brown, P.J., Tse, E.G., Stashko, M.A., Li, K., Norris-Drouin, J.L., Herring, L.E., Mordant, A.L., Webb, T.S., Mills, C.A., Barker, N.K., Streblow, Z.J., Perveen, S., Arrowsmith, C.H., Couñago, R.M., Arnold, J.J., Cameron, C.E., Streblow, D.N., Moorman, N.J., Heise, M.T., Willson, T.M., Popov, K.I., and Pearce, K.H.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Mapping of susceptibility loci for Ebola virus pathogenesis in mice.Schäfer, Alexandra; Marzi, Andrea; Furuyama, Wakako; Catanzaro, Nicholas J; Nguyen, Cameron; Haddock, Elaine; Feldmann, Friederike; Meade-White, Kimberly; Thomas, Tina; Hubbard, Miranda L; Gully, Kendra L; Leist, Sarah R; Hock, Pablo; Bell, Timothy A; De la Cruz, Gabriela E; Midkiff, Bentley R; Martinez, David R; Shaw, Ginger D; Miller, Darla R; Vernon, Michael J; Graham, Rachel L; Cowley, Dale O; Montgomery, Stephanie A; Schughart, Klaus; de Villena, Fernando Pardo Manuel; Wilkerson, Gregory K; Ferris, Martin T; Feldmann, Heinz; Baric, Ralph SCell Reports
Mechanism and spectrum of inhibition of a 4'-cyano modified nucleotide analog against diverse RNA polymerases of prototypic respiratory RNA viruses.Gordon, Calvin J; Walker, Simon M; Tchesnokov, Egor P; Kocincova, Dana; Pitts, Jared; Siegel, Dustin S; Perry, Jason K; Feng, Joy Y; Bilello, John P; Götte, MatthiasJournal of Biological Chemistry
Proximal Fleximer Analogues of 2′-deoxy-2′-fluoro-2′-methyl Purine Nucleos(t)ides: Synthesis and Preliminary Pharmacokinetic and Antiviral Evaluation.Waters III, C. D.; Carlyle, E.; Smart, V.; Rege, A.; Bieberich, C.J.; Seley-Radtke, K. L.* Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern fitness and adaptation in primary human airway epithelia.Meganck, Rita M; Edwards, Caitlin E; Mallory, Michael L; Lee, Rhianna E; Dang, Hong; Bailey, Alexis B; Wykoff, Jason A; Gallant, Samuel C; Zhu, Deanna R; Yount, Boyd L; Kato, Takafumi; Shaffer, Kendall M; Nakano, Satoko; Cawley, Anne Marie; Sontake, Vishwaraj; Wang, Jeremy R; Hagan, Robert S; Miller, Melissa B; Tata, Purushothama Rao; Randell, Scott H; Tse, Longping V; Ehre, Camille; Okuda, Kenichi; Boucher, Richard C; Baric, Ralph SCell Reports
Structure Activity of β-Amidomethyl Vinyl Sulfones as Covalent Inhibitors of Chikungunya nsP2 Cysteine Protease with Antialphavirus Activity.Ghoshal A, Asressu KH, Hossain MA, Brown PJ, Nandakumar M, Vala A, Merten EM, Sears JD, Law I, Burdick JE, Morales NL, Perveen S, Pearce KH, Popov KI, Moorman NJ, Heise MT, Willson TMJournal of Medicinal Chemistry
The antiviral, BDGR-49, provides protection from lethal, neurotropic Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus intranasal infection in mice.Evan Williams, Yi Xue, Peter Vogel, Dong Yang, Alejandro Ponce-Flores, Xiaoyu Li, Tyler Tyler Ogorek, Manisha Saini, Jorge Iulek, Francesc Ruiz, Eddy Arnold, Jennifer Golden, Bernd Meibohm, and Colleen Jonsson.Science Translational Medicine
The oral nucleoside prodrug GS-5245 is efficacious against SARS-CoV-2 and other endemic, epidemic, and enzootic coronaviruses.Martinez, David R; Moreira, Fernando R; Catanzaro, Nicholas J; Diefenbacher, Meghan V; Zweigart, Mark R; Gully, Kendra L; De la Cruz, Gabriela; Brown, Ariane J; Adams, Lily E; Yount, Boyd; Baric, Thomas J; Mallory, Michael L; Conrad, Helen; May, Samantha R; Dong, Stephanie; Scobey, D Trevor; Nguyen, Cameron; Montgomery, Stephanie A; Perry, Jason K; Babusis, Darius; Barrett, Kimberly T; Nguyen, Anh-Hoa; Nguyen, Anh-Quan; Kalla, Rao; Bannister, Roy; Feng, Joy Y; Cihlar, Tomas; Baric, Ralph S; Mackman, Richard L; Bilello, John P; Schäfer, Alexandra; Sheahan, Timothy PScience Translational Medicine
The small molecule inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro EDP-235 prevents viral replication and transmission in vivoRhodin, Michael H J; Reyes, Archie C; Balakrishnan, Anand; Bisht, Nalini; Kelly, Nicole M; Gibbons, Joyce Sweeney; Lloyd, Jonathan; Vaine, Michael; Cressey, Tessa; Crepeau, Miranda; Shen, Ruichao; Manalo, Nathan; Castillo, Jonathan; Levene, Rachel E; Leonard, Daniel; Zang, Tianzhu; Jiang, Lijuan; Daniels, Kellye; Cox, Robert M; Lieber, Carolin M; Wolf, Josef D; Plemper, Richard K; Leist, Sarah R; Scobey, Trevor; Baric, Ralph S; Wang, Guoqiang; Goodwin, Bryan; Or, Yat SunNature Communications
U-CAN-seq: A Universal Competition Assay by Nanopore Sequencing.Diaz, Jennifer; Sears, John; Chang, Che-Kang; Burdick, Jane; Law, Isabella; Sanders, Wes; Linnertz, Colton; Sylvester, Paul; Moorman, Nathaniel; Ferris, Martin T; Heise, Mark TViruses
Dysregulation of lung epithelial cell homeostasis and immunity contributes to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus disease severityAmy C. Sims, Alexandra Schäfer, Kenichi Okuda, Sarah R. Leist, Jacob F. Kocher, Adam S. Cockrell, Padraig E. Hawkins, Minako Furusho, Kara L. Jensen, Jennifer E. Kyle, Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson, Kelly G. Stratton, Natalie C. Lamar, Carrie D. Niccora, Karl K. Weitz, Richard D. Smith, Thomas O. Metz, Katrina M. Waters, Richard C. Boucher, Stephanie A. Montgomery, Ralph S. Baric*, Timothy P. Sheahan*. Co-crresponding*mSphere
On the importance of data curation for knowledge mining in antiviral researchMartin, Holli-Joi; Melo-Filho, Cleber C; Zakharov, Alexey V; Muratov, Eugene; Tropsha, AlexanderScience Progress

Pre-Prints

TitleAuthors
A Covalent Chemical Probe for Chikungunya nsP2 Cysteine Protease with Antialphaviral Activity and Proteome-wide SelectivityGhoshal A, Tse EG, Hossain MA, Kesatebrhan, Asressu KH, Merten EM, Sears JD, Howell S, Perveen S, Burdick J, Morales NL, Martinez SA, Law I, Davenport BJ, Morrison TE, Streblow ZJ, Streblow DN, Mordant AL, Webb TS, Cabrera A, Herring LE, Arrowsmith CH, Pearce KH, Moorman NJ, Heise MT, Couñago RM, Brown PJ, Willson TM.
Designed miniproteins potently inhibit and protect against MERS-CoVRagotte, Robert J; Tortorici, M Alejandra; Catanzaro, Nicholas J; Addetia, Amin; Coventry, Brian; Froggatt, Heather M; Lee, Jimin; Stewart, Cameron; Brown, Jack T; Goreshnik, Inna; Sims, Jeremiah N; Milles, Lukas F; Wicky, Basile I M; Glögl, Matthias; Gerben, Stacey; Kang, Alex; Bera, Asim K; Sharkey, William; Schäfer, Alexandra; Baric, Ralph S; Baker, David; Veesler, David
Heli-SMACC: Helicase-targeting SMAll Molecule Compound Collection.Martin, Holli-Joi; Hossain, Mohammad A; Wellnitz, James; Kelestemur, Enes; Hochuli, Joshua E; Parveen, Sumera; Arrowsmith, Cheryl; Willson, Timothy M; Muratov, Eugene; Tropsha, Alexander
Identification of Inhibitors of Chikungunya Virus nsP2 ATPaseNavarro H, Scott JE, Smith GR, Ghiabi P, Gibson E, Loppnau P, Harding RJ, Hossain MA, Bose MR, Pearce KH, Merten EM, Willson TM, Brown PJ
Identifying novel chemical matter against the Chikungunya virus nsP3 macrodomain through crystallographic fragment screening.Aschenbrenner, Jasmin C; de Godoy, Andre Schutzer; Fairhead, Michael; Tomlinson, Charles W E; Winokan, Max; Balcomb, Blake H; Capkin, Eda; Chandran, Anu V; Golding, Mathew; Koekemoer, Lizbe; Lithgo, Ryan M; Marples, Peter G; Ni, Xiaomin; Thompson, Warren; Wild, Conor; Xavier, Mary-Ann E; Fearon, Daren; von Delft, Frank
A post-assembly conformational change makes the SARS-CoV-2 polymerase elongation-competentKlein, Misha; Das, Arnab; Bera, Subhas C; Anderson, Thomas K; Kocincova, Dana; Lee, Hery W; Wang, Bing; Papini, Flavia S; Marecki, John C; Arnold, Jamie J; Cameron, Craig E; Raney, Kevin D; Artsimovitch, Irina; Götte, Mathias; Kirchdoerfer, Robert N; Depken, Martin; Dulin, David
Single-molecule assay reveals the impact of composition, RNA duplex, and inhibitors on the binding dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase complexLovell, Terri C; Dewling, Heidi A F; Li, Cynthia X; Lee, Hery W; Gordon, Calvin J; Kocincova, Dana; Badmalia, Maulik D; Tchesnokov, Egor P; Götte, Matthias; Cosa, Gonzalo
Species Dependent Metabolism of a Covalent nsP2 Protease Inhibitor with in Vivo Anti-alphaviral ActivityHossain MA, Mayo AK, Ghoshal A, Taft-Benz SA, Anderson EJ, Morales NL, Pressey KD, Vargason AM, Brouwer KLR, Moorman NJ, Heise MT, Willson TM