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Synthetic Mucus Nanobarriers for Identification of Glycan-Dependent Primary Influenza A Infection Inhibitors

[Image: see text] Current drugs against the influenza A virus (IAV) act by inhibiting viral neuraminidase (NA) enzymes responsible for the release of budding virions from sialoglycans on infected cells. Here, we describe an approach focused on a search for inhibitors that reinforce the protective fu...

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Autores principales: Cohen, Miriam, Senaati, Hooman P., Fisher, Christopher J., Huang, Mia L., Gagneux, Pascal, Godula, Kamil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2016
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800553
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.6b00191
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Sumario:[Image: see text] Current drugs against the influenza A virus (IAV) act by inhibiting viral neuraminidase (NA) enzymes responsible for the release of budding virions from sialoglycans on infected cells. Here, we describe an approach focused on a search for inhibitors that reinforce the protective functions of mucosal barriers that trap viruses en route to the target cells. We have generated mimetics of sialo-glycoproteins that insert into the viral envelope to provide a well-defined mucus-like environment encapsulating the virus. By introducing this barrier, which the virus must breach using its NA enzymes to infect a host cell, into a screening platform, we have been able to identify compounds that provide significant protection against IAV infection. This approach may facilitate the discovery of potent new IAV prophylactics among compounds with NA activities too weak to emerge from traditional drug screens.