ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Amicoumacin-based prodrug development approach
1 Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
2 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Alexandra Sergeevna Tsarkova
st. Miklukho-Maklaya, 16/10, Moscow, 117997, Russia; moc.liamg@avokrastla
Funding: the work was supported by the grant № 075-15-2021-1049 from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
Contribution of the authors: Yu. A. Prokopenko — development and isolation of Amikoumacin; V. I. Shmygarev — complete synthesis of an inactivated analog of Amikoumacin A; S. S. Terekhov, M. Yu. Zakharova — in vitro experiments with MPro protease; M. A. Dubinny — NMR spectroscopy and data analysis; A. S. Tsarkova — literature analysis, data processing, article writing; I. V. Yampolsky, I. V. Smirnov - general project management.
Compliance with ethical standards: the work was carried out in compliance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association.