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Since the global COVID-19 pandemic began, the scientific community has dedicated efforts to finding effective antiviral drugs to treat or minimize the effects caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Some targets can act as inhibitor substrates, highlighting the Main Protease (M pro ), which plays an essential role in the translation and transcription of the virus cycle. Withanolides, a class of natural C 28  steroidal lactones, are compounds of interest as possible inhibitors of M pro  and other critical targets of the virus, such as papain-like protease. In this study, the isolation of a new withanolide ( 1 ), along with the known 27-deoxywithaferin A ( 2 ) and 27-deoxy-2,3-dihydrowithaferin A ( 3 ), from the leaves of  Athenaea velutina  (Solanaceae) is described. Their structures were determined using spectroscopic and spectrometric methods (NMR, IR, HRESIMS). Moreover, the interaction and the stability of withanolides  1 – 3  and withanolide D ( 4 ), previously isolated of  Acnistus arborescens , against the M pro  target through molecular docking, molecular dynamics, and binding free energy simulations were analyzed. The molecular dynamics results indicated that the complexes formed by the molecular docking simulations between the M pro  target with each of the withanolides  1 – 4  exhibited good stability during the simulations due to a slight change in the structure of complexes. The binding free energy results suggested that withanolide ( 1 ) can be a natural candidate against COVID-19 disease. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma

Withanolides of Athenaea velutina with potential inhibitory properties against SARS coronavirus main protease (m pro ): molecular modeling studies