1. Quinolones as HCV NS5B polymerase inhibitors
- Author
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Huiyong Hu, Tony Ton, Dange Vijay Kumar, Roopa Rai, Michael J. Green, Isabelle Lehoux, Ravi Rajagopalan, Ken A. Brameld, John R. Somoza, Michael B. Shaghafi, James W. Janc, Nhat To, Yu M. Xia, and Wendy B. Young
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viruses ,Hepatitis C virus ,Hepacivirus ,Clinical Biochemistry ,Allosteric regulation ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Quinolones ,Viral Nonstructural Proteins ,medicine.disease_cause ,Crystallography, X-Ray ,Biochemistry ,Antiviral Agents ,Virus ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Structure-Activity Relationship ,Allosteric Regulation ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Computer Simulation ,Enzyme Inhibitors ,Molecular Biology ,NS5B ,Binding Sites ,biology ,Ribavirin ,Organic Chemistry ,virus diseases ,Quinoline analog ,biology.organism_classification ,Small molecule ,Virology ,digestive system diseases ,chemistry ,Molecular Medicine - Abstract
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is treated with a combination of peginterferon alfa-2a/b and ribavirin. To address the limitations of this therapy, numerous small molecule agents are in development, which act by directly affecting key steps in the viral life-cycle. Herein we describe our discovery of quinolone derivatives, novel small-molecules that inhibit NS5b polymerase, a key enzyme of the viral life-cycle. A crystal structure of a quinoline analog bound to NS5B reveals that this class of compounds binds to allosteric site-II (non-nucleoside inhibitor-site 2, NNI-2) of this protein.
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- 2010