High-throughput screening of the ReFRAME, Pandemic Box, and COVID Box drug repurposing libraries against SARS-CoV-2 nsp15 endoribonuclease to identify small-molecule inhibitors of viral activity

SARS-CoV-2 has caused a global pandemic, and has taken over 1.7 million lives as of mid-December, 2020. Although great progress has been made in the development of effective countermeasures, with several pharmaceutical companies approved or poised to deliver vaccines to market, there is still an unmet need of essential antiviral drugs with therapeutic impact for the treatment of moderate-to-severe COVID-19. Towards this goal, a high-throughput assay was used to screen SARS-CoV-2 nsp15 uracil-dependent endonuclease (endoU) function against 13 thousand compounds from drug and lead repurposing compound libraries. While over 80% of initial hit compounds were pan-assay inhibitory compounds, three hits were confirmed as nsp15 endoU inhibitors in the 1-20 μM range in vitro. Furthermore, Exebryl-1, a ß-amyloid anti-aggregation molecule for Alzheimer's therapy, was shown to have antiviral activity between 10 to 66 μM, in Vero 76, Caco-2, and Calu-3 cells. Although the inhibitory concentrations determined for Exebryl-1 exceed those recommended for therapeutic intervention, our findings show great promise for further optimization of Exebryl-1 as an nsp15 endoU inhibitor and as a SARS-CoV-2 antiviral.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

PloS one - 16(2021), 4 vom: 14., Seite e0250019

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Choi, Ryan [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Mowei [VerfasserIn]
Shek, Roger [VerfasserIn]
Wilson, Jesse W [VerfasserIn]
Tillery, Logan [VerfasserIn]
Craig, Justin K [VerfasserIn]
Salukhe, Indraneel A [VerfasserIn]
Hickson, Sarah E [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Neeraj [VerfasserIn]
James, Rhema M [VerfasserIn]
Buchko, Garry W [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ruilian [VerfasserIn]
Huff, Sydney [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Tu-Trinh [VerfasserIn]
Hurst, Brett L [VerfasserIn]
Cherry, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Barrett, Lynn K [VerfasserIn]
Hyde, Jennifer L [VerfasserIn]
Van Voorhis, Wesley C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral Agents
EC 3.1.-
Endoribonucleases
Journal Article
Nidoviral uridylate-specific endoribonuclease
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Small Molecule Libraries
Viral Nonstructural Proteins

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Date Completed 04.05.2021

Date Revised 16.02.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0250019

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM324406681