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ArticleScientific reports2026

A drug repurposing screen identifies antiviral compounds against Puumala Orthohantavirus.

Wanda Christ, Bartlomiej Porebski, Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo, Jonas Klingström

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Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Wanda Christ *Division of Virology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bartlomiej Porebski *Division of Genome Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. bartlomiej.porebski@ki.se.ORCID 0000-0002-8697-4740
Oscar Fernandez-CapetilloDivision of Genome Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jonas KlingströmDivision of Molecular Medicine and Virology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hantaviruses are zoonotic negative-sense RNA viruses that cause haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), yet no approved antiviral therapies are available. To identify host-directed modulators of hantavirus infection we performed a drug repurposing screen using live Puumala virus (PUUV). We identified and validated 70 drugs with antiviral activity in A549 cells and primary human endothelial cells. Functional clustering confirmed the known infection-inhibitory effect of several groups of compounds, including inhibitors of heat shock proteins, mTOR pathway and nucleotide synthesis. Our screen also identified compounds yet unexplored as antivirals against Hantaviruses, such as certain antibiotics. Our dataset provides a systematic map of host pathways influencing PUUV infection and highlights candidate compounds and cellular processes that can modulate this process.

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Antiviral AgentsDrug RepositioningPuumala virusA549 CellsAnimalsEndothelial CellsHemorrhagic Fever with Renal SyndromeHumansVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsAntibioticsAntiviralDrug repurposing screenEndothelial cellsHantavirusOrthohantavirusPuumala virus

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PMID42350480
PMCPMC13303921

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