3-amino-N-(naphthalene-1-yl)-5-trifluoromethyl)benzamide

A naphthalene derivative.

Phase of research

Potential treatment - pre-clinical evidence

How it helps

Antiviral

Drug status

Experimental

1
Supporting references
0
Contradictory references
0
AI-suggested references
0
Clinical trials

General information

3-amino-N-(naphthalene-1-yl)-5-trifluoromethyl)benzamide is an experimental SARS-CoV-2 Papain-like protease inhibitor (Osipiuk et al., 2021).

(Structure image generated in SwissSimilarity)

 

Structure image - 3-amino-N-(naphthalene-1-yl)-5-trifluoromethyl)benzamide

NC1=CC(=CC(=C1)C(=O)NC1=CC=CC2=CC=CC=C12)C(F)(F)F


Supporting references

Link Tested on Impact factor Notes Publication date
Structure of papain-like protease from SARS-CoV-2 and its complexes with non-covalent inhibitors
PapainLpro Small molecule Enzyme assay In vitro
in vitro enzyme assay; Vero E6 cells; SARS-CoV-2 astrain nCoV/Washington/1/2020 12.12

Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Papain-like protease in vitro with IC50 of ca. 43.2 μM. It inhibited the live virus in a whole cell assay with EC50 of ca. 1.7 μM.

Feb/02/2021