Repurposing Pyramax®, quinacrine and tilorone as treatments for Ebola virus disease

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We have recently identified three molecules (tilorone, quinacrine and pyronaridine tetraphosphate) which all demonstrated efficacy in the mouse model of infection with mouse-adapted Ebola virus (EBOV) model of disease and had similar in vitro inhibition of an Ebola pseudovirus (VSV-EBOV-GP), suggesting they interfere with viral entry. Using a machine learning model to predict lysosomotropism these compounds were evaluated for their ability to possess a lysosomotropic mechanism in vitro. We now demonstrate in vitro that pyronaridine tetraphosphate is an inhibitor of Lysotracker accumulation in lysosomes (IC50 = 0.56 μM). Further, we evaluated antiviral synergy between pyronaridine and artesunate (Pyramax®), which are used in combination to treat malaria. Artesunate was not found to have lysosomotropic activity in vitro and the combination effect on EBOV inhibition was shown to be additive. Pyramax® may represent a unique example of the repurposing of a combination product for another disease.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:182

Enthalten in:

Antiviral research - 182(2020) vom: 01. Okt., Seite 104908

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lane, Thomas R [VerfasserIn]
Dyall, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Mercer, Luke [VerfasserIn]
Goodin, Caleb [VerfasserIn]
Foil, Daniel H [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Huanying [VerfasserIn]
Postnikova, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Janie Y [VerfasserIn]
Holbrook, Michael R [VerfasserIn]
Madrid, Peter B [VerfasserIn]
Ekins, Sean [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

60W3249T9M
Antiviral
Antiviral Agents
Artesunate
Drug Combinations
Ebola
H0C805XYDE
Journal Article
Lysosomotropic
Machine learning
Naphthyridines
O6W7VEW6KS
Pyronaridine tetraphosphate, artesunate drug combination
Quinacrine
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
Tilorone

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Date Completed 12.07.2021

Date Revised 12.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104908

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313732264