A high-throughput drug screening strategy against coronaviruses

The emergence and re-emergence of coronaviruses (CoV) continually cause circulating epidemics and pandemics worldwide, such as the on-going outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The resultant disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has rapidly developed into a worldwide pandemic, leading to severe health and economic burdens. Although the recently announced vaccines against COVID-19 has rekindled hope, there is still a major challenge to urgently meet the global need for rapid treatment of the pandemic. Given the urgency of the CoV outbreak, we propose a strategy to screen potential broad-spectrum drugs against CoV in a high-throughput manner, particularly against SARS-CoV-2. Since the essential functional domains of CoV are extensively homologous, the availability of two types of mild CoV, HCoV-OC43 and MHV, should provide a valuable tool for the rapid identification of promising drugs against CoV without the drawbacks of level three biological confinements. The luciferase reporter gene is introduced into HCoV-OC43 and MHV to indicate viral activity, and hence the antiviral efficiency of screened drugs can be quantified by luciferase activity. Compounds with antiviral activity against both HCoV-OC43 and MHV are further evaluated in SARS-CoV-2 after structural optimizations. This system allows large-scale compounds to be screened to search for broad-spectrum drugs against CoV in a high-throughput manner, providing potential alternatives for clinical management of SARS-CoV-2 or other CoV..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:103

Enthalten in:

International Journal of Infectious Diseases - 103(2021), Seite 300-304

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jia Liu [VerfasserIn]
Kang Li [VerfasserIn]
Lin Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Jingjin Shao [VerfasserIn]
Shukun Yang [VerfasserIn]
Wei Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Guangqian Zhou [VerfasserIn]
Antoine A.F. de Vries [VerfasserIn]
Zhiyi Yu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Coronavirus
HCoV-OC43
High-throughput drug screening
Infectious and parasitic diseases
MHV
SARS-CoV-2

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2020.12.033

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ053856961