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ArticleJournal of virology2021

Discovery of a Novel Specific Inhibitor Targeting Influenza A Virus Nucleoprotein with Pleiotropic Inhibitory Effects on Various Steps of the Viral Life Cycle.

Fang Yang, Bo Pang, Kin Kui Lai, Nam Nam Cheung, Jun Dai, Weizhe Zhang, Jinxia Zhang, Kwok-Hung Chan, Honglin Chen, Kong-Hung Sze and 5 more

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Article in Journal of virology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Structural Features of Nucleoproteins from the Recently DiscoveredInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  10. Virus infection and vesicle trafficking.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
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  11. Progress of Influenza Viruses and Inhibitors.Current medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  15. Identification of the Imidazo[1,2-ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2023
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  19. Antiviral Drugs in Influenza.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fang Yang *Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Bo Pang *School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Kin Kui LaiDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Nam Nam CheungDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Jun DaiDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Weizhe ZhangSchool of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Jinxia ZhangDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Kwok-Hung ChanDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Honglin ChenDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5108-8338
Kong-Hung SzeDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Hongmin ZhangDepartment of Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Cell Microenvironment and Disease Research, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4356-3615
Quan HaoSchool of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Dan YangDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Kwok-Yung YuenDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China kyyuen@hkucc.hku.hk rytkao@hku.hk.ORCID 0000-0001-8700-4570
Richard Y KaoDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China kyyuen@hkucc.hku.hk rytkao@hku.hk.ORCID 0000-0001-8703-4980
University of Hong Kong · HKSouthern University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza A viruses (IAVs) continue to pose an imminent threat to humans due to annual influenza epidemic outbreaks and episodic pandemics with high mortality rates. In this context, the suboptimal vaccine coverage and efficacy, coupled with recurrent events of viral resistance against a very limited antiviral portfolio, emphasize an urgent need for new additional prophylactic and therapeutic options, including new antiviral targets and drugs with new mechanisms of action to prevent and treat influenza virus infection. Here, we characterized a novel influenza A virus nucleoprotein (NP) inhibitor, FA-6005, that inhibited a broad spectrum of human pandemic and seasonal influenza A and B viruses

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Drug DiscoveryNucleocapsid ProteinsAnimalsAntiviral AgentsDogsHEK293 CellsHumansInfluenza A Virus, H1N1 SubtypeInfluenza, HumanMadin Darby Canine Kidney CellsMiceMice, Inbred BALB COrthomyxoviridae InfectionsProtein BindingVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsNP protein, Influenza A virusNucleocapsid Proteinsinfluenzanucleoproteinsmall-molecule inhibitor

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PMID33627391
PMCPMC8104107
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