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Identification of constrained peptides that bind to and preferentially inhibit the activity of the hepatitis C viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.

Abstract：

:A class of disulfide constrained peptides containing a core motif FPWG was identified from a screen of phage displayed library using the HCV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (NS5B) as a bait. Surface plasmon resonance studies showed that three highly purified synthetic constrained peptides bound to immobilized NS5B with estimated K(d) values ranging from 30 to 60 microM. In addition, these peptides inhibited the NS5B activity in vitro with IC(50) ranging from 6 to 48 microM, whereas in contrast they had no inhibitory effect on the enzymatic activities of calf thymus polymerase alpha, human polymerase beta, RSV polymerase, and HIV reverse transcriptase in vitro. Two peptides demonstrated conformation-dependent inhibition since their synthetic linear versions were not inhibitory in the NS5B assay. A constrained peptide with the minimum core motif FPWG retained selective inhibition of NS5B activity with an IC(50) of 50 microM. Alanine scan analyses of a representative constrained peptide, FPWGNTW, indicated that residues F1 and W7 were critical for the inhibitory effect of this peptide, although residues P2 and N5 had some measurable inhibitory effect as well. Further analyses of the mechanism of inhibition indicated that these peptides inhibited the formation of preelongation complexes required for the elongation reaction. However, once the preelongation complex was formed, its activity was refractory to peptide inhibition. Furthermore, the constrained peptide FPWGNTW inhibited de novo initiated RNA synthesis by NS5B from a poly(rC) template. These data indicate that the peptides confer selective inhibition of NS5B activity by binding to the enzyme and perturbing an early step preceding the processive elongation step of RNA synthesis.

journal_name

Virology

journal_title

Virology

authors

Amin A,Zaccardi J,Mullen S,Olland S,Orlowski M,Feld B,Labonte P,Mak P

doi

10.1016/s0042-6822(03)00313-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-08-15 00:00:00

pages

158-69

issue

eissn

0042-6822

issn

1096-0341

pii

S0042682203003131

journal_volume

313

pub_type

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Identification of constrained peptides that bind to and preferentially inhibit the activity of the hepatitis C viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.