Integration of metabolomics and chemometrics with in-silico and in-vitro approaches to unravel SARS-Cov-2 inhibitors from South African plants

• Karabo Maselepe Makoana ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karabo Maselepe Makoana, Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo, Muhammad Sulaiman Zubair, Mmei Cheryl Motshudi, Nqobile Monate Mkolo

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Science and Technology, Sefako Makgatho Health Science University, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karabo Maselepe Makoana, Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo, Muhammad Sulaiman Zubair, Mmei Cheryl Motshudi, Nqobile Monate Mkolo

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Science and Technology, Sefako Makgatho Health Science University, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9164-8213

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• Muhammad Sulaiman Zubair ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karabo Maselepe Makoana, Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo, Muhammad Sulaiman Zubair, Mmei Cheryl Motshudi, Nqobile Monate Mkolo

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, University of Tadulako, Palu, Indonesia

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• Mmei Cheryl Motshudi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karabo Maselepe Makoana, Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo, Muhammad Sulaiman Zubair, Mmei Cheryl Motshudi, Nqobile Monate Mkolo

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Science and Technology, Sefako Makgatho Health Science University, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Nqobile Monate Mkolo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karabo Maselepe Makoana, Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo, Muhammad Sulaiman Zubair, Mmei Cheryl Motshudi, Nqobile Monate Mkolo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nqobile.mkolo@smu.ac.za

  Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Science and Technology, Sefako Makgatho Health Science University, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3631-4522

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