The recent outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia(COVID-19)caused by a new coronavirus has posed a great threat to public health.Identifying safe and effective antivirals is of urgent demand to cure the huge number o...The recent outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia(COVID-19)caused by a new coronavirus has posed a great threat to public health.Identifying safe and effective antivirals is of urgent demand to cure the huge number of patients.Virusencoded proteases are considered potential drug targets.The human immunodeficiency virus protease inhibitors(lopinavir/ritonavir)has been recommended in the global Solidarity Trial in March launched by World Health Organization.However,there is currently no experimental evidence to support or against its clinical use.We evaluated the antiviral efficacy of lopinavir/ritonavir along with other two viral protease inhibitors in vitro,and discussed the possible inhibitory mechanism in silico.The in vitro to in vivo extrapolation was carried out to assess whether lopinavir/ritonavir could be effective in clinical.Among the four tested compounds,lopinavir showed the best inhibitory effect against the novel coronavirus infection.However,further in vitro to in vivo extrapolation of pharmacokinetics suggested that lopinavir/ritonavir could not reach effective concentration under standard dosing regimen[marketed as Kaletraò,contained lopinavir/ritonavir(200 mg/50 mg)tablets,recommended dosage is 400 mg/10 mg(2 tablets)twice daily].This research concluded that lopinavir/ritonavir should be stopped for clinical use due to the huge gap between in vitro IC50 and free plasma concentration.Nevertheless,the structure–activity relationship analysis of the four inhibitors provided further information for de novel design of future viral protease inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2.展开更多
Emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses occasionally cause epidemics and pandemics worldwide,such as the on-going outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.Herein,we identified two potent inhibitors of human DHODH,S31...Emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses occasionally cause epidemics and pandemics worldwide,such as the on-going outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.Herein,we identified two potent inhibitors of human DHODH,S312 and S416,with favorable drug-likeness and pharmacokinetic profiles,which all showed broad-spectrum antiviral effects against various RNA viruses,including influenza A virus,Zika virus,Ebola virus,and particularly against SARS-CoV-2.Notably,S416 is reported to be the most potent inhibitor so far with an EC5o of 17 nmol/L and an SI value of 10,505.88 in infec-ted cells.Our results are the first to validate that DHODH is an attractive host target through high antiviral efficacy in vivo and low virus replication in DHODH knock-out cells.This work demonstrates that both S312/S416 and old drugs(Leflunomide/Teriflunomide)with dual actions of antiviral and immuno-regulation may have clinical potentials to cure SARS-CoV-2 or other RNA viruses circulating worldwide,no matter such viruses are mutated or not.展开更多
CORRECTION TO:PROTEIN CELL 2020,11(10):723–739 HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1007/S13238-020-00768-W In the original publication the author’s name‘Dimitri Lavillete’is published incorrectly.The correct author name should be ...CORRECTION TO:PROTEIN CELL 2020,11(10):723–739 HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1007/S13238-020-00768-W In the original publication the author’s name‘Dimitri Lavillete’is published incorrectly.The correct author name should be spelt as‘Dimitri Lavillette’is provided in this correction.OPEN ACCESS This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License,which permits use,sharing,adaptation,distribution and reproduction in any medium or format,as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s)and the source,provide a link to the Creative Commons licence,and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence,unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use,you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.To view a copy of this licence,visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.展开更多
Figure 1.Discovery of novel and potent DHODHi and their anti-influenza A virus activities.(A)The discovery and design of S312 and S416.The detailed descriptions of the discovery workflow are in Method.Binding analysis...Figure 1.Discovery of novel and potent DHODHi and their anti-influenza A virus activities.(A)The discovery and design of S312 and S416.The detailed descriptions of the discovery workflow are in Method.Binding analysis of S312(B)and S416(C).Thermodynamic analysis of the binding of S312 and S416 to DHODH was carried out at 25 C on a MicroCal iTC200 instrument.Kinetic analysis of the binding of S312 and S416 to DHODH was performed with a Biacore T200 instrument.展开更多
基金supported in part by grants from the National Science and Technology Major Projects(Grant Number 2018ZX09711003)National Key Research and Development Project(2020YFC0841700)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Number 31621061)the Hubei Science and Technology Project(Grant Number 2020FCA003)。
文摘The recent outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia(COVID-19)caused by a new coronavirus has posed a great threat to public health.Identifying safe and effective antivirals is of urgent demand to cure the huge number of patients.Virusencoded proteases are considered potential drug targets.The human immunodeficiency virus protease inhibitors(lopinavir/ritonavir)has been recommended in the global Solidarity Trial in March launched by World Health Organization.However,there is currently no experimental evidence to support or against its clinical use.We evaluated the antiviral efficacy of lopinavir/ritonavir along with other two viral protease inhibitors in vitro,and discussed the possible inhibitory mechanism in silico.The in vitro to in vivo extrapolation was carried out to assess whether lopinavir/ritonavir could be effective in clinical.Among the four tested compounds,lopinavir showed the best inhibitory effect against the novel coronavirus infection.However,further in vitro to in vivo extrapolation of pharmacokinetics suggested that lopinavir/ritonavir could not reach effective concentration under standard dosing regimen[marketed as Kaletraò,contained lopinavir/ritonavir(200 mg/50 mg)tablets,recommended dosage is 400 mg/10 mg(2 tablets)twice daily].This research concluded that lopinavir/ritonavir should be stopped for clinical use due to the huge gap between in vitro IC50 and free plasma concentration.Nevertheless,the structure–activity relationship analysis of the four inhibitors provided further information for de novel design of future viral protease inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2.
基金This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program Grants(2018FYA0900801 and 2018ZX10101004003001 to K.X.2016YFA0502304 to H.L.)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants 31922004 and 81772202 to K.X.,81825020 to H.L.)+2 种基金the National Science&Technology Major Project"Key New Drug Creation and Manufac-turing Program"of China(Grant 2018ZX09711002 to H.L.)Appli-cation&Frontier Research Program of Wuhan Govemment(2019020701011463 to K.X.).Honglin Li is also sponsored by the National Program for Special Supports of Eminent Professionals and National Program for Support of Top-Notch Young ProfessionalsWe are grateful to Taikang Insurance Group Co,Ltd,Beiing Taikang Yicai Foundation,and Special Fund for COVID-19 Research of Wuhan University for their great supports to this work.
文摘Emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses occasionally cause epidemics and pandemics worldwide,such as the on-going outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.Herein,we identified two potent inhibitors of human DHODH,S312 and S416,with favorable drug-likeness and pharmacokinetic profiles,which all showed broad-spectrum antiviral effects against various RNA viruses,including influenza A virus,Zika virus,Ebola virus,and particularly against SARS-CoV-2.Notably,S416 is reported to be the most potent inhibitor so far with an EC5o of 17 nmol/L and an SI value of 10,505.88 in infec-ted cells.Our results are the first to validate that DHODH is an attractive host target through high antiviral efficacy in vivo and low virus replication in DHODH knock-out cells.This work demonstrates that both S312/S416 and old drugs(Leflunomide/Teriflunomide)with dual actions of antiviral and immuno-regulation may have clinical potentials to cure SARS-CoV-2 or other RNA viruses circulating worldwide,no matter such viruses are mutated or not.
文摘CORRECTION TO:PROTEIN CELL 2020,11(10):723–739 HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1007/S13238-020-00768-W In the original publication the author’s name‘Dimitri Lavillete’is published incorrectly.The correct author name should be spelt as‘Dimitri Lavillette’is provided in this correction.OPEN ACCESS This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License,which permits use,sharing,adaptation,distribution and reproduction in any medium or format,as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s)and the source,provide a link to the Creative Commons licence,and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence,unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use,you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.To view a copy of this licence,visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
文摘Figure 1.Discovery of novel and potent DHODHi and their anti-influenza A virus activities.(A)The discovery and design of S312 and S416.The detailed descriptions of the discovery workflow are in Method.Binding analysis of S312(B)and S416(C).Thermodynamic analysis of the binding of S312 and S416 to DHODH was carried out at 25 C on a MicroCal iTC200 instrument.Kinetic analysis of the binding of S312 and S416 to DHODH was performed with a Biacore T200 instrument.
