Peptide-Based Dual HIV and Coronavirus Entry Inhibitors

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The continued HIV/AIDS epidemic worldwide and the battle against emerging infectious diseases caused by coronaviruses underscore the need for the development of an ever-expanding repertoire of antiviral drugs. Entry inhibitors are of particular interest because of their potential to be used as therapeutic or prophylactic treatments for blocking viral invasion. HIV and coronaviruses utilize class I fusion proteins to facilitate their entry and membrane fusion. Discovery of a common hexameric coiled-coil fusion complex resulting from the packing of three C-terminal heptad repeat region from the fusion-mediating subunit of viral fusion proteins against trimeric coiled-coil made up by their N-terminal heptad repeat prompted the search for peptides mimicking the heptad repeat regions that could potentially inhibit viral entry. This has led to the development of effective peptides that are specific to the virus that is developed for. In this review, we focus on peptide-based entry dual inhibitors that block fusion process not only of HIV but also coronaviruses through interrupting their fusogenic six-helical bundle core and which hopefully will help to gain insight into the α-helical secondary structure- and coiled-coil superstructure-based strategies to design entry inhibitors with broad-spectrum antiviral activity against enveloped viruses with class I fusion proteins.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:1366

Enthalten in:

Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1366(2022) vom: 12., Seite 87-100

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chao [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral Agents
Coiled-coil
Coronavirus
Fusion inhibitor
HIV
HIV Envelope Protein gp41
HIV Fusion Inhibitors
Journal Article
Lipopeptide
Peptides
Review

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Date Completed 14.04.2022

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/978-981-16-8702-0_6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33941717X