ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2014
Inhibition of Rift Valley fever virus replication and perturbation of nucleocapsid-RNA interactions by suramin.
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- From Hepatitis to Encephalitis: Neuroinvasion and Antiviral Development in Rift Valley Fever Virus Infection.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Drug repositioning as a promising approach for the eradication of emerging and re-emerging viral agents.Molecular diversity · 2025Review
- Computer-Selected Antiviral Compounds: Assessing In Vitro Efficacies against Rift Valley Fever Virus.Viruses · 2024Article
- Structural Modifications and Biological Evaluations of Rift Valley Fever Virus Inhibitors Identified from Chemical Library Screening.ACS omega · 2022Article
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- Antiviral Agents in Development for Zika Virus Infections.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Recent advances in the development of antiviral therapeutics for Rift Valley fever virus infection.Future virology · 2017Review
- Transcription and replication mechanisms of Bunyaviridae and Arenaviridae L proteins.Virus research · 2017Review
- Hemorrhagic fever of bunyavirus etiology: disease models and progress towards new therapies.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2017Review
- Synthesis and in vitro antiviral evaluation of 4-substituted 3,4-dihydropyrimidinones.Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters · 2017Article
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- Suramin is a potent inhibitor of Chikungunya and Ebola virus cell entry.Virology journal · 2016Article
- RNA Encapsidation and Packaging in the Phleboviruses.Viruses · 2016Review
- Computational prediction and biochemical characterization of novel RNA aptamers to Rift Valley fever virus nucleocapsid protein.Computational biology and chemistry · 2015Article
- Suramin Inhibits Chikungunya Virus Entry and Transmission.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is an emerging infectious pathogen that causes severe disease in humans and livestock and has the potential for global spread. There are currently no proven safe and effective treatment options for RVFV infection. Inhibition of RNA binding to RVFV nucleocapsid protein (N) represents an attractive antiviral therapeutic strategy because several essential steps in the RVFV replication cycle involve N binding to viral RNA. In this study, we demonstrate the therapeutic potential of the drug suramin by showing that it functions well as an inhibitor of RVFV replication at multiple stages in human cell culture. Suramin has been used previously to treat trypanosomiasis in Africa. We characterize the dynamic and cooperative nature of N-RNA binding interactions and the dissociation of high-molecular-mass ribonucleoprotein complexes using suramin, which we previously identified as an N-RNA binding inhibitor in a high-throughput screen. Finally, we elucidate the molecular mechanism used by suramin in vitro to disrupt both specific and nonspecific binding events important for ribonucleoprotein formation.
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