State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Wuhan, China.
The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University (Shenzhen People's Hospital) , Shenzhen, China.
J Virol. 2023 Oct 31;97(10):e0079623. doi: 10.1128/jvi.00796-23. Epub 2023 Sep 21.
The spread of avian-borne, tick-borne, and rodent-borne pathogens has the potential to pose a serious threat to human health, and candidate vaccines as well as therapeutics for these pathogens are urgently needed. Tanshinones, especially tanshinone I, were identified as a cap-dependent endonuclease inhibitor with broad-spectrum antiviral effects on negative-stranded, segmented RNA viruses including bandavirus, orthomyxovirus, and arenavirus from natural products, implying an important resource of candidate antivirals from the traditional Chinese medicines. This study supplies novel candidate antivirals for the negative-stranded, segmented RNA virus and highlights the endonuclease involved in the cap-snatching process as a reliable broad-spectrum antiviral target.
禽源、蜱传和鼠源病原体的传播有可能对人类健康构成严重威胁,迫切需要针对这些病原体的候选疫苗和疗法。从天然产物中发现丹参酮,特别是丹参酮 I,是一种帽依赖性内切核酸酶抑制剂,对包括簿波病毒、正粘病毒和沙粒病毒在内的负链、分段 RNA 病毒具有广谱抗病毒作用,这意味着从传统中药中获得候选抗病毒药物的重要资源。本研究为负链、分段 RNA 病毒提供了新的候选抗病毒药物,并强调了参与帽捕捉过程的内切核酸酶作为可靠的广谱抗病毒靶标。