Antiviral Drug Targets: Structure, Function, and Drug Design—3rd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editors
Interests: zinc-binding proteins; medicinal chemistry; molecular dynamics; virtual screening; natural products; antiviral agents; anticancer agents; chemoinformatics; computational structural biology; lead optimization
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Interests: flaviviruses; HIV-1; SARS-COV-2; antivirals; cell-based viral assays; drug resistance, live virus neutralization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, viral infections present a serious health and social problem, as underlined by the recent coronavirus pandemic. Several other viruses (e.g., Ebola, Zika, West Nile, Dengue, and Chikungunya virus) which lack available drugs or vaccines also present a concrete risk of epidemic spread. Antiviral drug design adopts contributions from different disciplines—characterization of virus type, elucidation of structural features of macromolecular targets, and understanding of the mechanisms of viral replication in the host— to notably accelerate the identification of suitable drug targets. Antiviral agents are designed and optimized accordingly, through multiple techniques including computational, chemical, biochemical, biophysical, and biological studies, as well as through integrated combinations of these methods.
This Special Issue collates recent findings on antiviral drug targets, with a focus on structural and functional elucidations and drug design. Submissions of original research papers and reviews within this broad and relevant field are welcome.
Dr. Mattia Mori
Dr. Ilaria Vicenti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- viral infections
- drug design
- protein structures
- functional studies
- viruses
- antiviral drugs
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