期刊
ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH
卷 106, 期 -, 页码 125-134出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2014.03.014
关键词
Repurposing antimalarials as dengue antivirals; Chloroquine; Primaquine; Stable replicon cell lines for dengue and West Nile viruses; Inhibition of dengue virus replication and infectivity; Amodiaquine therapeutic index
资金
- NIH [U01AI082068, R01AI70791]
- Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Georgetown University
Dengue virus serotypes 1-4 (DENV1-4) are transmitted by mosquitoes which cause most frequent arboviral infections in the world resulting in similar to 390 million cases with similar to 25,000 deaths annually. There is no vaccine or antiviral drug currently available for human use. Compounds containing quinoline scaffold were shown to inhibit flavivirus NS2B-NS3 protease (NS2B-NS3pro) with good potencies. In this study, we screened quinoline derivatives, which are known antimalarial drugs for inhibition of DENV2 and West Nile virus (WNV) replication using the corresponding replicon expressing cell-based assays. Amodiaquine (AQ), one of the 4-aminoquinoline drugs, inhibited DENV2 infectivity measured by plaque assays, with EC50 and EC90 value's of 1.08 +/- 0.09 mu M and 2.69 +/- 0.47 mu M, respectively, and DENV2 RNA replication measured by Renilla luciferase reporter assay, with EC50 value of 7.41 +/- 1.09 mu M in the replicon expressing cells. Cytotoxic concentration (CC50) in BHK-21 cells was 52.09 +/- 4.25 mu M. The replication inhibition was confirmed by plaque assay of the extracellular virions as well as by qRT-PCR of the intracellular and extracellular viral RNA levels. AQ was stable for at least 96 h and had minor inhibitory effect on entry, translation, and post-replication stages in the viral life cycle. DENV protease, 5'-methyltransferase, and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase do not seem to be targets of AQ. Both p-hydroxyanilino and diethylaminomethyl moieties are important for AQ to inhibit DENV2 replication and infectivity. Our results support AQ as a promising candidate for anti-flaviviral therapy. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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