Nair Vasu, Chi Guochen, Shu Qingning, Julander Justin, Smee Donald F
Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences and the Center for Drug Discovery, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2009 Mar 1;19(5):1425-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.01.031. Epub 2009 Jan 15.
There are no specific approved drugs or vaccines for the treatment or prevention of infectious dengue virus and there are very few compounds known that inhibit the replication of this virus. This letter describes the concise synthesis of two uracil-based multifunctional compounds. One of these compounds (1) has strong activity against dengue virus. It also exhibits low activity against a few other RNA viruses, but is highly active against yellow fever virus, a related flavivirus. It is likely that the mechanism of action of the antiviral activity of this compound is through its inhibition of the enzyme, inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH). Molecular modeling studies reveal that the compound can have specific hydrogen bonding interactions with a number of amino acids in the active site of IMPDH, a stacking interaction with the bound natural substrate, IMP, and the ability to interfere with the binding of NAD(+) with IMPDH, prior to the hydration step.
目前尚无专门批准用于治疗或预防登革热病毒感染的药物或疫苗,并且已知能够抑制该病毒复制的化合物非常少。本文描述了两种基于尿嘧啶的多功能化合物的简洁合成方法。其中一种化合物(1)对登革热病毒具有很强的活性。它对其他几种RNA病毒也表现出低活性,但对黄热病毒(一种相关的黄病毒)具有高活性。该化合物抗病毒活性的作用机制可能是通过抑制肌苷单磷酸脱氢酶(IMPDH)。分子模拟研究表明,该化合物能够与IMPDH活性位点中的多个氨基酸发生特异性氢键相互作用,与结合的天然底物IMP发生堆积相互作用,并能够在水合步骤之前干扰NAD(+)与IMPDH的结合。