Institute of Organic Chemistry, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.
Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 97078 Würzburg, Germany.
Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Apr 14;24(8):7281. doi: 10.3390/ijms24087281.
Recently, we have shown that C6-ceramides efficiently suppress viral replication by trapping the virus in lysosomes. Here, we use antiviral assays to evaluate a synthetic ceramide derivative α-NH2-ω-N3-C6-ceramide (AKS461) and to confirm the biological activity of C6-ceramides inhibiting SARS-CoV-2. Click-labeling with a fluorophore demonstrated that AKS461 accumulates in lysosomes. Previously, it has been shown that suppression of SARS-CoV-2 replication can be cell-type specific. Thus, AKS461 inhibited SARS-CoV-2 replication in Huh-7, Vero, and Calu-3 cells up to 2.5 orders of magnitude. The results were confirmed by CoronaFISH, indicating that AKS461 acts comparable to the unmodified C6-ceramide. Thus, AKS461 serves as a tool to study ceramide-associated cellular and viral pathways, such as SARS-CoV-2 infections, and it helped to identify lysosomes as the central organelle of C6-ceramides to inhibit viral replication.
最近,我们已经证明 C6-神经酰胺通过将病毒困在溶酶体中来有效抑制病毒复制。在这里,我们使用抗病毒测定法来评估合成神经酰胺衍生物α-NH2-ω-N3-C6-神经酰胺 (AKS461),并确认 C6-神经酰胺抑制 SARS-CoV-2 的生物学活性。用荧光团进行点击标记表明 AKS461 积聚在溶酶体中。先前已经表明,抑制 SARS-CoV-2 复制可能具有细胞类型特异性。因此,AKS461 抑制 Huh-7、Vero 和 Calu-3 细胞中的 SARS-CoV-2 复制高达 2.5 个数量级。CoronaFISH 的结果证实了这一点,表明 AKS461 的作用与未修饰的 C6-神经酰胺相当。因此,AKS461 可用作研究神经酰胺相关细胞和病毒途径(例如 SARS-CoV-2 感染)的工具,它有助于确定溶酶体是抑制病毒复制的 C6-神经酰胺的中心细胞器。