Potent peptidic fusion inhibitors of influenza virus

Author:

Kadam Rameshwar U.1ORCID,Juraszek Jarek2ORCID,Brandenburg Boerries2ORCID,Buyck Christophe3ORCID,Schepens Wim B. G.3ORCID,Kesteleyn Bart4ORCID,Stoops Bart3ORCID,Vreeken Rob J.3ORCID,Vermond Jan2ORCID,Goutier Wouter2ORCID,Tang Chan2ORCID,Vogels Ronald2,Friesen Robert H. E.2,Goudsmit Jaap25,van Dongen Maria J. P.23ORCID,Wilson Ian A.16ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.

2. Janssen Prevention Center, Leiden, Netherlands.

3. Discovery Sciences, Janssen Research & Development, Beerse, Belgium.

4. Janssen Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Beerse, Belgium.

5. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

6. The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Abstract

Broadly reactive drugs for flu Drugs for influenza are limited. For those available, viral resistance is rife. Part of the problem is that the virus is constantly mutating. Kadam et al. tested the cell entry stage of the virus life cycle as a drug target (see the Perspective by Whitehead). Cell entry is mediated by the major surface glycoprotein hemagglutinin (HA). This stage can be blocked by broadly neutralizing antibodies binding to HA. The authors generated small cyclic peptides that bind to the same sites on HA as the antibodies and mimic their activity. The peptides are cheap and easy to synthesize, are nontoxic to mice, and prevented infection of cells by many types of influenza virus. Science , this issue p. 496 ; see also p. 450

Funder

National Institutes of Health

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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