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Miao Xu is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Biology. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 72 publications. Previous affiliations of Miao Xu include Zhejiang University & Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital.
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Papers
Identification of small-molecule inhibitors of Zika virus infection and induced neural cell death via a drug repurposing screen
Miao Xu,Emily M. Lee,Zhexing Wen,Yichen Cheng,Wei Kai Huang,Xuyu Qian,Julia Tcw,Jennifer Kouznetsova,Sarah C. Ogden,Christy Hammack,Fadi Jacob,Ha Nam Nguyen,Misha Itkin,Catherine Hanna,Paul Shinn,Chase Allen,Samuel G. Michael,Anton Simeonov,Wenwei Huang,Kimberly M. Christian,Alison Goate,Kristen J. Brennand,Ruili Huang,Menghang Xia,Guo Li Ming,Wei Zheng,Hongjun Song,Hengli Tang +27 more
TL;DR: A pan-caspase inhibitor, emricasan, inhibited ZIKV-induced increases in caspase-3 activity and protected human cortical neural progenitors in both monolayer and three-dimensional organoid cultures, and combination treatments using one compound from each category (neuroprotective and antiviral) further increased protection of human neural progensitors and astrocytes from ZIKv-induced cell death.
Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Cells and Brain Organoids Reveal SARS-CoV-2 Neurotropism Predominates in Choroid Plexus Epithelium.
Fadi Jacob,Fadi Jacob,Sarshan R. Pather,Wei-Kai Huang,Wei-Kai Huang,Feng Zhang,Samuel Zheng Hao Wong,Samuel Zheng Hao Wong,Haowen Zhou,Beatrice Cubitt,Wenqiang Fan,Catherine Z. Chen,Miao Xu,Manisha Pradhan,Daniel Y. Zhang,Wei Zheng,Anne G. Bang,Hongjun Song,Juan Carlos de la Torre,Guo Li Ming +19 more
TL;DR: Investigation of the susceptibility of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived monolayer brain cells and region-specific brain organoids to SARS-CoV-2 infection found that neurons and astrocytes were sparsely infected, but choroid plexus epithelial cells underwent robust infection.
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Heparan sulfate assists SARS-CoV-2 in cell entry and can be targeted by approved drugs in vitro
Qi Zhang,Catherine Z. Chen,Manju Swaroop,Miao Xu,Lihui Wang,Juhyung Lee,Amy Wang,Manisha Pradhan,Natalie Hagen,Lu Chen,Min Shen,Zhiji Luo,Xin Xu,Yue Xu,Wenwei Huang,Wei Zheng,Yihong Ye +16 more
TL;DR: HS is established as an attachment factor that assists SARS coronavirus cell entry and reveals drugs capable of targeting this important step in the viral life cycle.
Identification of SARS-CoV-2 3CL Protease Inhibitors by a Quantitative High-Throughput Screening
Wei Zhu,Miao Xu,Catherine Z. Chen,Hui Guo,Min Shen,Xin Hu,Paul Shinn,Carleen Klumpp-Thomas,Samuel G. Michael,Wei Zheng +9 more
- 04 Sep 2020
TL;DR: A set of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro inhibitors that may have potential for further clinical evaluation as part of drug combination therapies to treating COVID-19 patients and as starting points for chemistry optimization for new drug development are demonstrated.
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RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase as a Target for COVID-19 Drug Discovery.
Wei Zhu,Catherine Z. Chen,Kirill Gorshkov,Miao Xu,Donald C. Lo,Wei Zheng +5 more
- 13 Jul 2020
TL;DR: This review focuses on biochemical enzyme and cell-based assays for RdRPs that could be used in high-throughput screening to discover new and repurposed drugs against SARS-CoV-2.
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