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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2020

A broad-spectrum antiviral molecule, QL47, selectively inhibits eukaryotic translation.

Mélissanne de Wispelaere, Margot Carocci, Dominique J Burri, William J Neidermyer, Calla M Olson, Imme Roggenbach, Yanke Liang, Jinhua Wang, Sean P J Whelan, Nathanael S Gray and 1 more

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mélissanne de WispelaereDepartment of Microbiology and Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Margot CarocciDepartment of Microbiology and Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Dominique J BurriDepartment of Microbiology and Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
William J NeidermyerDepartment of Microbiology and Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Calla M OlsonDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215.
Imme RoggenbachDepartment of Microbiology and Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Yanke LiangDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215.
Jinhua WangDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215.
Sean P J WhelanDepartment of Microbiology and Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Nathanael S GrayDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215.
Priscilla L YangDepartment of Microbiology and Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115. Electronic address: priscilla_yang@hms.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Treatments for Nipah Virus InfectionU54AI057159 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI KASPER, DENNIS L. · 2003 to 2013
$113.7M
RNA Processing in Non-Segmented Minus-Strand RNA VirusesR37AI059371 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WHELAN, SEAN PJ · 2015 to 2024
$5.4M
Validation of Src kinases as Anti-Dengue Viral TargetsR01AI076442 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI YANG, PRISCILLA LI-NING · 2008 to 2012
$2.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI076442NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI059371NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI057159
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small-molecule inhibitors of translation are critical tools to study the molecular mechanisms of protein synthesis. In this study, we sought to characterize how QL47, a host-targeted, small-molecule antiviral agent, inhibits steady-state viral protein expression. We demonstrate that this small molecule broadly inhibits both viral and host protein synthesis and targets a translation step specific to eukaryotic cells. We show that QL47 inhibits protein neosynthesis initiated by both canonical cap-driven and noncanonical initiation strategies, most likely by targeting an early step in translation elongation. Our findings thus establish QL47 as a new small-molecule inhibitor that can be utilized to probe the eukaryotic translation machinery and that can be further developed as a new therapeutic agent.

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Antiviral AgentsCell LineHEK293 CellsHumansProtein BiosynthesisProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesViral ProteinsVirus DiseasesVirusesAntiviral AgentsProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesViral Proteinsanticancer drugantiviral agentinhibition mechanismsmall moleculetranslation

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PMID31914414
PMCPMC7008383
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