The FDA-approved drug Alectinib compromises SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid phosphorylation and inhibits viral infection in vitro

While vaccines are vital for preventing COVID-19 infections, it is critical to develop new therapies to treat patients who become infected. Pharmacological targeting of a host factor required for viral replication can suppress viral spread with a low probability of viral mutation leading to resistance. In particular, host kinases are highly druggable targets and a number of conserved coronavirus proteins, notably the nucleoprotein (N), require phosphorylation for full functionality. In order to understand how targeting kinases could be used to compromise viral replication, we used a combination of phosphoproteomics and bioinformatics as well as genetic and pharmacological kinase inhibition to define the enzymes important for SARS-CoV-2 N protein phosphorylation and viral replication. From these data, we propose a model whereby SRPK1/2 initiates phosphorylation of the N protein, which primes for further phosphorylation by GSK-3a/b and CK1 to achieve extensive phosphorylation of the N protein SR-rich domain. Importantly, we were able to leverage our data to identify an FDA-approved kinase inhibitor, Alectinib, that suppresses N phosphorylation by SRPK1/2 and limits SARS-CoV-2 replication. Together, these data suggest that repurposing or developing novel host-kinase directed therapies may be an efficacious strategy to prevent or treat COVID-19 and other coronavirus-mediated diseases.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2020

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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2020) vom: 16. Dez.

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Englisch

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Yaron, Tomer M [VerfasserIn]
Heaton, Brook E [VerfasserIn]
Levy, Tyler M [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Jared L [VerfasserIn]
Jordan, Tristan X [VerfasserIn]
Cohen, Benjamin M [VerfasserIn]
Kerelsky, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Ting-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Liberatore, Katarina M [VerfasserIn]
Bulaon, Danielle K [VerfasserIn]
Kastenhuber, Edward R [VerfasserIn]
Mercadante, Marisa N [VerfasserIn]
Shobana-Ganesh, Kripa [VerfasserIn]
He, Long [VerfasserIn]
Schwartz, Robert E [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shuibing [VerfasserIn]
Weinstein, Harel [VerfasserIn]
Elemento, Oliver [VerfasserIn]
Piskounova, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Nilsson-Payant, Benjamin E [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Gina [VerfasserIn]
Trimarco, Joseph D [VerfasserIn]
Burke, Kaitlyn N [VerfasserIn]
Hamele, Cait E [VerfasserIn]
Chaparian, Ryan R [VerfasserIn]
Harding, Alfred T [VerfasserIn]
Tata, Aleksandra [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Xinyu [VerfasserIn]
Tata, Purushothama Rao [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Clare M [VerfasserIn]
Possemato, Anthony P [VerfasserIn]
Tkachev, Sasha L [VerfasserIn]
Hornbeck, Peter V [VerfasserIn]
Beausoleil, Sean A [VerfasserIn]
Anand, Shankara K [VerfasserIn]
Aguet, François [VerfasserIn]
Getz, Gad [VerfasserIn]
Davidson, Andrew D [VerfasserIn]
Heesom, Kate [VerfasserIn]
Kavanagh-Williamson, Maia [VerfasserIn]
Matthews, David [VerfasserIn]
tenOever, Benjamin R [VerfasserIn]
Cantley, Lewis C [VerfasserIn]
Blenis, John [VerfasserIn]
Heaton, Nicholas S [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 14.01.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1101/2020.08.14.251207

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NLM313917558