卡里霉素通过下调宿主因子TMEM41B对冠状病毒复制表现出广谱抑制活性。
Carrimycin exhibited broad spectrum inhibitory activities against coronaviruses replication through down-regulating host factor TMEM41B.
作者信息
Wang Kun, Wang Hui-Qiang, Yang Ge, Wu Shuo, Yan Hai-Yan, Wu Meng-Yuan, Li Yu-Huan, Jiang Jian-Dong
机构信息
CAMS Key Laboratory of Antiviral Drug Research, Beijing Key Laboratory of Technology and Application for Anti-Infective New Drugs Research and Development, NHC Key Laboratory of Biotechnology of Antibiotics, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050, China.
State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Functions of Natural Medicines, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050, China.
出版信息
Acta Pharmacol Sin. 2025 May 15. doi: 10.1038/s41401-025-01577-9.
We previously reported that carrimycin could inhibit pan-coronavirus including HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43 and SARS-CoV-2. We found that carrimycin targeted the post-entry replicative events in coronavirus infection. Carrimycin could impede the viral protein translation switch from ORF1a to ORF1b by targeting programmed -1 ribosomal frameshifting (-1PRF). Carrimycin could also inhibit the newly synthesized (nascent) viral RNA. In this study we investigated whether carrimycin also inhibited the newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 variants. We showed that carrimycin (1.25-10 µM) dose-dependently inhibited both viral RNA and protein levels in Vero E6 cells. We further demonstrated that carrimycin disrupted the formation of SARS-CoV-2 double membrane vesicles (DMVs), and identified the host transmembrane protein B (TMEM41B) as the key factor involved in this process. Overexpression of TMEM41B increased viral protein levels and mRNA levels, whereas TMEM41B knockdown reduced viral replication including HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43 and SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, overexpression of TMEM41B partially reversed the inhibitory effect of carrimycin, suggesting that carrimycin indeed exerted antiviral effects through regulation of TMEM41B. We revealed that carrimycin directly bound to TMEM41B and induced its K48 ubiquitination degradation, thereby inhibiting viral replication. These results expand the understanding of carrimycin's antiviral mechanisms, particularly its antiviral activity, and enrich our knowledge about the role of host factors in regulating viral replication.
我们之前报道过卡里霉素可以抑制包括HCoV - 229E、HCoV - OC43和SARS-CoV-2在内的泛冠状病毒。我们发现卡里霉素靶向冠状病毒感染中进入后的复制事件。卡里霉素可以通过靶向程序性-1核糖体移码(-1PRF)来阻碍病毒蛋白翻译从ORF1a向ORF1b的转换。卡里霉素还可以抑制新合成的(新生的)病毒RNA。在本研究中,我们调查了卡里霉素是否也能抑制新出现的SARS-CoV-2变体。我们发现卡里霉素(1.25 - 10 μM)在Vero E6细胞中剂量依赖性地抑制病毒RNA和蛋白水平。我们进一步证明卡里霉素破坏了SARS-CoV-2双膜囊泡(DMV)的形成,并确定宿主跨膜蛋白B(TMEM41B)是参与这一过程的关键因子。TMEM41B的过表达增加了病毒蛋白水平和mRNA水平,而TMEM41B的敲低则降低了包括HCoV - 229E、HCoV - OC43和SARS-CoV-2在内的病毒复制。此外,TMEM41B的过表达部分逆转了卡里霉素的抑制作用,这表明卡里霉素确实通过调节TMEM41B发挥抗病毒作用。我们揭示了卡里霉素直接与TMEM41B结合并诱导其K48泛素化降解,从而抑制病毒复制。这些结果扩展了对卡里霉素抗病毒机制的理解,特别是其抗病毒活性,并丰富了我们对宿主因子在调节病毒复制中作用的认识。