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Although, the disease was first recorded in 1970, no monkeypox specific drug or vaccine exists as of now.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We applied drug repositioning method, testing effectiveness of currently approved drugs against emerging disease, as one of the most affordable approaches for discovering novel treatment measures. Techniques such as virtual ligand-based and structure-based screening were applied to identify potential drug candidates against monkeypox.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We narrowed down our results to 6 antiviral and 20 anti-tumor drugs that exhibit theoretically higher potency than tecovirimat, the currently approved drug for monkeypox disease.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Our results indicated that selected drug compounds displayed strong binding affinity for p37 receptor of monkeypox virus and therefore can potentially be used in future studies to confirm their effectiveness against the disease.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s13258-023-01449-8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,15]],"date-time":"2023-09-15T08:03:47Z","timestamp":1694765027000},"page":"1347-1355","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Repurposing existing drugs for monkeypox: applications of virtual screening methods"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"45","author":[{"given":"Vladimir","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Youngho","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chul","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3064-1303","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Heebal","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"1449_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Aldea M et al (2021) \u2018Repurposing of Anticancer Drugs Expands Possibilities for Antiviral and Anti-Inflammatory Discovery in COVID-19\u2019, Cancer Discovery, 11(6), pp.\u00a01336\u20131344. 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