In-silico drug repurposing study predicts the combination of pirfenidone and melatonin as a promising candidate therapy to reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection progression and respiratory distress caused by cytokine storm

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• dc.contributor.author Artigas, Laura
• dc.contributor.author Coma Camprodón, Mireia
• dc.contributor.author Matos Filipe, Pedro
• dc.contributor.author Aguirre Plans, Joaquim, 1993-
• dc.contributor.author Farrés, Judith
• dc.contributor.author Valls, Raquel
• dc.contributor.author Fernández Fuentes, Narcís
• dc.contributor.author Haba Rodríguez, Juan de la
• dc.contributor.author Olvera, Alex
• dc.contributor.author Barbera, Jose
• dc.contributor.author Morales-Barrera, Rafael
• dc.contributor.author Oliva Miguel, Baldomero
• dc.contributor.author Mas, José Manuel
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-11-05T06:54:19Z
• dc.date.available 2020-11-05T06:54:19Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract From January 2020, COVID-19 is spreading around the world producing serious respiratory symptoms in infected patients that in some cases can be complicated by the severe acute respiratory syndrome, sepsis and septic shock, multiorgan failure, including acute kidney injury and cardiac injury. Cost and time efficient approaches to reduce the burthen of the disease are needed. To find potential COVID-19 treatments among the whole arsenal of existing drugs, we combined system biology and artificial intelligence-based approaches. The drug combination of pirfenidone and melatonin has been identified as a candidate treatment that may contribute to reduce the virus infection. Starting from different drug targets the effect of the drugs converges on human proteins with a known role in SARS-CoV-2 infection cycle. Simultaneously, GUILDify v2.0 web server has been used as an alternative method to corroborate the effect of pirfenidone and melatonin against the infection of SARS-CoV-2. We have also predicted a potential therapeutic effect of the drug combination over the respiratory associated pathology, thus tackling at the same time two important issues in COVID-19. These evidences, together with the fact that from a medical point of view both drugs are considered safe and can be combined with the current standard of care treatments for COVID-19 makes this combination very attractive for treating patients at stage II, non-severe symptomatic patients with the presence of virus and those patients who are at risk of developing severe pulmonary complications.
• dc.description.sponsorship LA, MC, PMF, JF, RV and JMM have commercial affiliation to Anaxomics Biotech SL. The funders provided support in the form of salaries for authors JAP, NFF and PMF, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. JAP, NFF and BO acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy (MINECO) [BIO2017-85329-R] [RYC-2015-17519]; Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy [ref: MDM-2014-0370].PMF has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 765912.
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• dc.identifier.citation Artigas L, Coma M, Matos-Filipe P, Aguirre-Plans J, Farrés J, Valls R, Fernandez-Fuentes N, de la Haba-Rodriguez J, Olvera A, Barbera J, Morales R, Oliva B, Mas JM. In-silico drug repurposing study predicts the combination of pirfenidone and melatonin as a promising candidate therapy to reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection progression and respiratory distress caused by cytokine storm. PLoS One. 2020; 15(10):e0240149. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240149
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240149
• dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45661
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• dc.relation.ispartof PLoS One. 2020; 15(10):e0240149
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/765912
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/BIO2017-85329-R
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/RYC-2015-17519
• dc.rights © 2020 Artigas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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• dc.subject.keyword Melatonin
• dc.subject.keyword SARS CoV 2
• dc.subject.keyword Respiratory infections
• dc.subject.keyword COVID 19
• dc.subject.keyword Drug interactions
• dc.subject.keyword Cytokines
• dc.subject.keyword Computer networks
• dc.subject.keyword Drug therapy
• dc.title In-silico drug repurposing study predicts the combination of pirfenidone and melatonin as a promising candidate therapy to reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection progression and respiratory distress caused by cytokine storm
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