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Antiviral fibrils of self-assembled peptides with tunable compositions

J Dodd-o, A Roy, Z Siddiqui, R Jafari, F Coppola… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nature communications, 2024nature.com
144 天前 - The lasting threat of viral pandemics necessitates the development of tailorable first-
response antivirals with specific but adaptive architectures for treatment of novel viral
infections. Here, such an antiviral platform has been developed based on a mixture of hetero-
peptides self-assembled into functionalized β-sheets capable of specific multivalent binding
to viral protein complexes. One domain of each hetero-peptide is designed to specifically
bind to certain viral proteins, while another domain self-assembles into fibrils with epitope …
Abstract
The lasting threat of viral pandemics necessitates the development of tailorable first-response antivirals with specific but adaptive architectures for treatment of novel viral infections. Here, such an antiviral platform has been developed based on a mixture of hetero-peptides self-assembled into functionalized β-sheets capable of specific multivalent binding to viral protein complexes. One domain of each hetero-peptide is designed to specifically bind to certain viral proteins, while another domain self-assembles into fibrils with epitope binding characteristics determined by the types of peptides and their molar fractions. The self-assembled fibrils maintain enhanced binding to viral protein complexes and retain high resilience to viral mutations. This method is experimentally and computationally tested using short peptides that specifically bind to Spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2. This platform is efficacious, inexpensive, and stable with excellent tolerability.
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