% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Olubiyi:1043723, author = {Olubiyi, Olujide Oludayo and Attah, Francis Alfred and Strodel, Birgit and Eberle, Raphael Josef and Coronado, Monika Aparecida and Akinseinde, Oluwadotun and Onyeaghala, Augustine Anayochukwu and Uzochukwu, Ikemefuna Chijioke and Kotila, Olayinka Adejoke and Dada-Adegbola, Hannah and Adepiti, Awodayo Oluwatoyin and Elujoba, Anthony Adebolu and Babalola, Chinedum Peace}, title = {{N}ovel dietary herbal preparations with inhibitory activities against multiple {SARS}-{C}o{V}-2 targets: {A} multidisciplinary investigation into antiviral activities}, journal = {Food chemistry advances}, volume = {7}, issn = {2772-753X}, address = {[Amsterdam]}, publisher = {Elsevier}, reportid = {FZJ-2025-03009}, pages = {100969 -}, year = {2025}, abstract = {The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in not <7.1million deaths globally as of December 2024. Many new variants of concern have continued to emerge since the initial outbreak of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus traceable to the Wuhan strain (Wuhan-Hu-1). In this work, the therapeutic potentials of four new polyherbal dietary preparations – VIVE (five plants), FORTE1(fortified VIVE), COMBI-5 (five spices) and MOK (Moringa seed) as well as four individual ethnomedicinal plants were investigated. Computational screening revealed chemical structures capable of establishing moderate to strong interaction with SARS-CoV-2′s main protease enzyme, while in vitro screening against the viral protease clearly established inhibitory potencies. The individual plant extracts making up VIVE and FORTE1 showed mild (494.9 ± 19.6 µg/ml) to moderate (21.5 ± 1.1 µg/ml) inhibitory activity against the viral enzyme in vitro; highest activity was obtained in the polyherbal VIVE preparation (17.3 ± 1.4 µg/ml). The MOK exerted total inhibition – 100 $\%$ (IC50 -3.6 ± 0.9) of the viral enzyme while COMBI-5 produced an inhibition of 95 $\%(IC50$ - 0.9 ± 0.1). These results revealed the potential of specialized metabolites within these widely consumed dietary herbal products for the management of COVID-19 and related viral threats.}, cin = {IBI-7}, ddc = {660}, cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBI-7-20200312}, pnm = {5241 - Molecular Information Processing in Cellular Systems (POF4-524)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5241}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, doi = {10.1016/j.focha.2025.100969}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1043723}, }