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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 81, 期 24, 页码 13392-13402出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00770-07
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- NCI NIH HHS [P30 CA008748] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [N01-AI-15435, N01AI15435, U01 AI61456, U01 AI061456] Funding Source: Medline
The bioterror threat of a smallpox outbreak in an unvaccinated population has mobilized efforts to develop new antipoxviral agents. By screening a library of known drugs, we identified 13 compounds that inhibited vaccinia virus replication at noncytotoxic doses. The anticancer drug mitoxantrone is unique among the inhibitors identified in that it has no apparent impact on viral gene expression. Rather, it blocks processing of viral structural proteins and assembly of mature progeny virions. The isolation of mitoxantrone-resistant vaccinia strains underscores that a viral protein is the likely target of the drug. Whole-genome sequencing of mitoxantrone-resistant viruses pinpointed missense mutations in the N-terminal domain of vaccinia DNA ligase. Despite its favorable activity in cell culture, mitoxantrone administered intraperitoneally at the maximum tolerated dose failed to protect mice against a lethal intranasal infection with vaccinia virus.
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