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  2. An oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitor clinical candidate for the treatment of COVID-19

An oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitor clinical candidate for the treatment of COVID-19

  • Science. 2021 Dec 24;374(6575):1586-1593. doi: 10.1126/science.abl4784.
Dafydd R Owen 1 Charlotte M N Allerton 1 Annaliesa S Anderson 2 Lisa Aschenbrenner 3 Melissa Avery 3 Simon Berritt 3 Britton Boras 4 Rhonda D Cardin 2 Anthony Carlo 3 Karen J Coffman 3 Alyssa Dantonio 3 Li Di 3 Heather Eng 3 RoseAnn Ferre 4 Ketan S Gajiwala 4 Scott A Gibson 5 Samantha E Greasley 4 Brett L Hurst 5 Eugene P Kadar 3 Amit S Kalgutkar 1 Jack C Lee 3 Jisun Lee 3 Wei Liu 4 Stephen W Mason 2 Stephen Noell 3 Jonathan J Novak 3 R Scott Obach 3 Kevin Ogilvie 3 Nandini C Patel 1 Martin Pettersson 1 Devendra K Rai 2 Matthew R Reese 3 Matthew F Sammons 1 Jean G Sathish 2 Ravi Shankar P Singh 1 Claire M Steppan 3 Al E Stewart 4 Jamison B Tuttle 1 Lawrence Updyke 1 Patrick R Verhoest 1 Liuqing Wei 3 Qingyi Yang 1 Yuao Zhu 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Pfizer Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  • 2 Pfizer Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, Pearl River, NY 10965, USA.
  • 3 Pfizer Worldwide Research, Development & Medical; Groton, CT 06340, USA.
  • 4 Pfizer Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, La Jolla, CA 92121, USA.
  • 5 Institute for Antiviral Research, Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University; Logan, UT 84322, USA.
Abstract

The worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global pandemic. Alongside vaccines, Antiviral therapeutics are an important part of the healthcare response to countering the ongoing threat presented by COVID-19. Here, we report the discovery and characterization of PF-07321332, an orally bioavailable SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor with in vitro pan-human coronavirus Antiviral activity and excellent off-target selectivity and in vivo safety profiles. PF-07321332 has demonstrated oral activity in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 model and has achieved oral plasma concentrations exceeding the in vitro Antiviral cell potency in a phase 1 clinical trial in healthy human participants.

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