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ArticleDrug design, development and therapy2018

Symmetric dimeric adamantanes for exploring the structure of two viroporins: influenza virus M2 and hepatitis C virus p7.

Yasmine M Mandour, Ulrike Breitinger, Chunlong Ma, Jun Wang, Frank M Boeckler, Hans-Georg Breitinger, Darius P Zlotos

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Yasmine M MandourDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, German University in Cairo.
Ulrike BreitingerDepartment of Biochemistry, The German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Chunlong MaDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Jun WangDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Frank M BoecklerDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Hans-Georg BreitingerDepartment of Biochemistry, The German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Darius P ZlotosDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, German University in Cairo.
German University in Cairo · EGUniversity of Arizona · USUniversity of Tübingen · DE

Funding

Drug Discovery Targeting the Influenza A Virus M2-S31N Proton ChannelR33AI119187 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI PEREZ, DANIEL R, WANG, JUN · 2017 to 2019
$1.2M
Drug Discovery Targeting the Influenza A Virus M2-S31N Proton ChannelR21AI119187 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI PEREZ, DANIEL R, WANG, JUN · 2015 to 2016
$419k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI119187NIAID NIH HHS R33 AI119187
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAdamantane-based compounds have been identified to interfere with the ion-channel activity of viroporins and thereby inhibit viral infection. To better understand the difference in the inhibition mechanism of viroporins, we synthesized symmetric dimeric adamantane analogs of various alkyl-spacer lengths.

methodsSymmetric dimeric adamantane derivatives were synthesized where two amantadine or rimantadine molecules were linked by various alkyl-spacers. The inhibitory activity of the compounds was studied on two viroporins: the influenza virus M2 protein, expressed in

resultsUpon testing on M2 protein, dimeric compounds showed significantly lower inhibitory activity relative to the monomeric amantadine. The lack of channel blockage of the dimeric amantadine and rimantadine analogs against M2 wild type and M2-S31N mutant was consistent with previously proposed drug-binding mechanisms and further confirmed that the pore-binding model is the pharmacologically relevant drug-binding model. On the other hand, these dimers showed similar potency to their respective monomeric analogs when tested on p7 protein in HCV genotypes 1a, 1b, and 4a while being 700-fold and 150-fold more potent than amantadine in genotypes 2a and 3a, respectively. An amino group appears to be important for inhibiting the ion-channel activity of p7 protein in genotype 2a, while its importance was minimal in all other genotypes.

conclusionSymmetric dimeric adamantanes can be considered a prospective class of p7 inhibitors that are able to address the differences in adamantane sensitivity among the various genotypes of HCV.

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AdamantaneAmantadineAntiviral AgentsCells, CulturedDrug DesignHEK293 CellsHumansModels, MolecularMolecular StructureRimantadineViral Matrix ProteinsViral ProteinsViroporin ProteinsAdamantaneAmantadineAntiviral AgentsM2 protein, Influenza A virusp7 protein, Hepatitis C virusRimantadineViral Matrix ProteinsViral ProteinsViroporin ProteinsadamantanedimersHCVM2p7viroporins

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PMCPMC5933338
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