Tuaimenal A, a Meroterpene from the Irish Deep-Sea Soft Coral Duva florida, Displays Inhibition of the SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro Enzyme.

Cold water benthic environments are a prolific source of structurally diverse molecules with a range of bioactivities against human disease. Specimens of a previously chemically unexplored soft coral, Duva florida, were collected during a deep-sea cruise that sampled marine invertebrates along the Irish continental margin in 2018. Tuaimenal A (1), a cyclized merosesquiterpenoid representing a new carbon scaffold with a highly substituted chromene core, was discovered through exploration of the soft coral secondary metabolome via NMR-guided fractionation. The absolute stereochemistry was determined through vibrational circular dichroism. Functional biochemical assays and in silico docking experiments found tuaimenal A selectively inhibits the viral main protease (3CLpro) of SARS-CoV-2..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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chemRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 21. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Avalon, Nicole E. [VerfasserIn]
Nafie, Jordan [VerfasserIn]
De Marco Verissimo, Carolina [VerfasserIn]
Warrensford, Luke C. [VerfasserIn]
Dietrick, Sarah G. [VerfasserIn]
Pittman, Amanda R. [VerfasserIn]
Young, Ryan M. [VerfasserIn]
Kearns, Fiona L. [VerfasserIn]
Smalley, Tracess [VerfasserIn]
Binning, Jennifer M. [VerfasserIn]
Dalton, John P. [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Mark P. [VerfasserIn]
Woodcock, H. Lee [VerfasserIn]
Allcock, A. Louise [VerfasserIn]
Baker, Bill J. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

540
Chemistry

doi:

10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-bjcfb-v3

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XCH036665487