Phenothiazines Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Entry through Targeting Spike Protein

Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has brought an unprecedented public health crisis and continues to threaten humanity due to the persistent emergence of new variants. Therefore, developing more effective and broad-spectrum therapeutic and prophylactic drugs against infection by SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, as well as future emerging CoVs, is urgently needed. In this study, we screened several US FDA-approved drugs and identified phenothiazine derivatives with the ability to potently inhibit the infection of pseudotyped SARS-CoV-2 and distinct variants of concern (VOCs), including B.1.617.2 (Delta) and currently circulating Omicron sublineages XBB and BQ.1.1, as well as pseudotyped SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. Mechanistic studies suggested that phenothiazines predominantly inhibited SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus (PsV) infection at the early stage and potentially bound to the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2, which may prevent the proteolytic cleavage of the S protein, thereby exhibiting inhibitory activity against SARS-CoV-2 infection. In summary, our findings suggest that phenothiazines can serve as a potential broad-spectrum therapeutic drug for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection as well as the infection of future emerging human coronaviruses (HCoVs).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Viruses - 15(2023), 8 vom: 31. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liang, Taizhen [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Shiqi [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ziyao [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Xi [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Sen [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Meilin [VerfasserIn]
Li, Guojie [VerfasserIn]
Li, Peiwen [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Xiancai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cathepsin L
Entry inhibitor
Journal Article
Phenothiazine
Phenothiazines
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SARS-CoV-2
Spike
Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
Spike protein, SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 28.08.2023

Date Revised 07.09.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/v15081666

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36130191X