id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-269470-emzr3dzb Menéndez, Cintia A. Molecular characterization of ebselen binding activity to SARS-CoV-2 main protease 2020-09-11 .txt text/plain 4729 252 56 In addition, the authors considered the potential mutability of residues belonging to the M pro catalytic site and explained that the development of drug resistance associated with the natural evolution of M pro could wipe out efforts that target this protein for COVID-19 treatment. Apart from these residues, ebselen bound at both sites shows the lowest  factor values; however, at this specific point, this system exhibits as high flexibility as M pro -apo protein (Fig. 3A , green line). A total of more than 6 s of classical MD simulations of SARS-CoV-2 M pro -apo state and M pro -ebselen complex were run using the AMBER18 (29) simulation package (3 s, ebselen as a molecular probe; 2.4 s, shear strain analysis; 100 ns, water structure and flux analysis; 990 ns, free energy analysis). ./cache/cord-269470-emzr3dzb.txt ./txt/cord-269470-emzr3dzb.txt