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New diterpenes from Nigella damascena seeds and their antiviral activities against herpes simplex virus type-1.

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The structural determination of new compounds damasterpenes V–VIII is described with consideration of their absolute configurations and the antiviral activities against herpes simplex virus type-1 of the isolated compounds and their derivatives are evaluated.
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Nigella species are rich source of dolabellane diterpenes. During our study of Nigella species, new dolabellane diterpenes, damasterpenes V–VIII were isolated. The structural determination of new compounds damasterpenes V–VIII is described with consideration of their absolute configurations. The antiviral activities against herpes simplex virus type-1 of the isolated compounds and their derivatives are also evaluated. Damasterpene V (inhibition 35.0%) and 2-phenylacetyl 13-benzoyl damasterpenol (32.0%) showed significant antiviral activity at 10 μM.

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Potential of diterpene compounds as antivirals, a review.

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Ligand- and structure-based virtual screening of Lamiaceae diterpenes with potential activity against a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

TL;DR: This study aimed to use computational methods to perform a virtual screen (VS) of candidate diterpenes with the potential to act as CoV inhibitors, and selected 19 compounds, including isotanshinone IIA, tanshinlactone, and tanshinketolactone which did not present toxicity within the evaluated parameters.
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Analysis of diterpenes and diterpenoids

TL;DR: In this article, the properties and classification of diterpenes, importance of chromatography in diterphenes analysis, effects of processing in the phytochemicals have been discussed.
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Antimicrobial Diterpenes: Recent Development From Natural Sources

TL;DR: In this article , a systematic review of the literature regarding different classes of natural diterpenes and diterpoids with significant antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antiprotozoal activities along with their reported structure-activity relationships is presented.
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Resistance of Herpes Simplex Viruses to Nucleoside Analogues: Mechanisms, Prevalence, and Management

TL;DR: The gold standard phenotypic method for evaluating the susceptibility of HSV isolates to antiviral drugs is the plaque reduction assay and there is a need to develop new antiherpetic compounds with different mechanisms of action.
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New strategies against drug resistance to herpes simplex virus

TL;DR: Current strategies in the development of new targets (the DNA helicase/primase (H/P) complex), new types of molecules and new antiviral mechanisms to fight the drug resistance of HSV are summarized.
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In vitro antiviral diterpenes from the Brazilian brown alga Dictyota pfaffii.

TL;DR: Three substances of Dictyota pfaffii afforded the rare dolabellane diterpene 10,18-diacetoxy-8-hydroxy-2, 6-dolABelladiene and the new 10-acetoxy-7,8-di-Hydroxy- 2,6-Dolablladiene, which showed strong anti-HSV-1 activity in vitro but only 3 inhibited the reverse transcriptase enzyme of HIV-
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Anti-herpes virus type 1 activity of oleanane-type triterpenoids.

TL;DR: The anti-herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) activity of 15 oleanan-type triterpenoides including glycyrrhizin and its sapogenol was examined and their structure-activity relationships were discussed.
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