Snake venom phospholipase $ A_{2} $s exhibit strong virucidal activity against SARS-CoV-2 and inhibit the viral spike glycoprotein interaction with ACE2

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 requires new treatments both to alleviate the symptoms and to prevent the spread of this disease. Previous studies demonstrated good antiviral and virucidal activity of phospholipase $ A_{2} $s ($ PLA_{2} $s) from snake venoms against viruses from different families but there was no data for coronaviruses. Here we show that $ PLA_{2} $s from snake venoms protect Vero E6 cells against SARS-CoV-2 cytopathic effects. $ PLA_{2} $s showed low cytotoxicity to Vero E6 cells with some activity at micromolar concentrations, but strong antiviral activity at nanomolar concentrations. Dimeric $ PLA_{2} $ from the viper Vipera nikolskii and its subunits manifested especially potent virucidal effects, which were related to their phospholipolytic activity, and inhibited cell–cell fusion mediated by the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein. Moreover, $ PLA_{2} $s interfered with binding both of an antibody against ACE2 and of the receptor-binding domain of the glycoprotein S to 293T/ACE2 cells. This is the first demonstration of a detrimental effect of $ PLA_{2} $s on β-coronaviruses. Thus, snake $ PLA_{2} $s are promising for the development of antiviral drugs that target the viral envelope, and could also prove to be useful tools to study the interaction of viruses with host cells..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:78

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Cellular and molecular life sciences - 78(2021), 23 vom: 29. Okt., Seite 7777-7794

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Siniavin, Andrei E. [VerfasserIn]
Streltsova, Maria A. [VerfasserIn]
Nikiforova, Maria A. [VerfasserIn]
Kudryavtsev, Denis S. [VerfasserIn]
Grinkina, Svetlana D. [VerfasserIn]
Gushchin, Vladimir A. [VerfasserIn]
Mozhaeva, Vera A. [VerfasserIn]
Starkov, Vladislav G. [VerfasserIn]
Osipov, Alexey V. [VerfasserIn]
Lummis, Sarah C. R. [VerfasserIn]
Tsetlin, Victor I. [VerfasserIn]
Utkin, Yuri N. [VerfasserIn]

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42.15

Themen:

Molecular modelling
Pseudotyped SARS-CoV-2 virus
Receptor binding domain
Replication cycle
Surface plasmon resonance
Time-of-drug-addition assay

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© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

doi:

10.1007/s00018-021-03985-6

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SPR045690812