Rigid amphipathic fusion inhibitors, small molecule antiviral compounds against enveloped viruses.

Abstract:

:Antiviral drugs targeting viral proteins often result in prompt selection for resistance. Moreover, the number of viral targets is limited. Novel antiviral targets are therefore needed. The unique characteristics of fusion between virion envelopes and cell membranes may provide such targets. Like all fusing bilayers, viral envelopes locally adopt hourglass-shaped stalks during the initial stages of fusion, a process that requires local negative membrane curvature. Unlike cellular vesicles, however, viral envelopes do not redistribute lipids between leaflets, can only use the energy released by virion proteins, and fuse to the extracellular leaflets of cell membranes. Enrichment in phospholipids with hydrophilic heads larger than their hydrophobic tails in the convex outer leaflet of vesicles favors positive curvature, therefore increasing the activation energy barrier for fusion. Such phospholipids can increase the activation barrier beyond the energy provided by virion proteins, thereby inhibiting viral fusion. However, phospholipids are not pharmacologically useful. We show here that a family of synthetic rigid amphiphiles of shape similar to such phospholipids, RAFIs (rigid amphipathic fusion inhibitors), inhibit the infectivity of several otherwise unrelated enveloped viruses, including hepatitis C and HSV-1 and -2 (lowest apparent IC(50) 48 nM), with no cytotoxic or cytostatic effects (selectivity index > 3,000) by inhibiting the increased negative curvature required for the initial stages of fusion.

authors

St Vincent MR,Colpitts CC,Ustinov AV,Muqadas M,Joyce MA,Barsby NL,Epand RF,Epand RM,Khramyshev SA,Valueva OA,Korshun VA,Tyrrell DL,Schang LM

doi

10.1073/pnas.1010026107

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2010-10-05 00:00:00

pages

17339-44

issue

40

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

pii

1010026107

journal_volume

107

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