Hepatitis C: The Story of a Long Journey through First, Second, and Third Generation NS3/4A Peptidomimetic Inhibitors. What Did We Learn?

SD Martino, GL Petri, M De Rosa - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection is the leading cause of liver failure and still represents a
global health burden. Over the past decade, great advancements made HCV curable, and …

The discovery of conformationally constrained bicyclic peptidomimetics as potent Hepatitis C NS5A inhibitors

WM Kazmierski, N Miriyala, DK Johnson… - ACS Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
HCV NS5A inhibitors are the backbone of directly acting antiviral treatments against the
hepatitis C virus (HCV). While these therapies are generally highly curative, they are less …

Novel peptidomimetic hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease inhibitors spanning the P2–P1′ region

AK Lampa, SM Bergman, SS Gustafsson… - ACS Medicinal …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Herein, novel hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease inhibitors based on a P2
pyrimidinyloxyphenylglycine in combination with various regioisomers of an aryl acyl …

HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitors and the road to effective direct-acting antiviral therapies

N Tremblay, AY Park, D Lamarre - Hepatitis C Virus II: Infection and …, 2016 - Springer
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) currently infects over 185 million individuals around the world. Its
persistence causes infected individuals to enter a chronic phase where their condition can …

Inhibitors of the Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Protease with Basic Amine Functionality at the P3-Amino Acid N-Terminus: Discovery and Optimization of a New Series of P2 …

S Harper, M Ferrara, B Crescenzi… - Journal of medicinal …, 2009 - ACS Publications
In a follow-up to our recent disclosure of P2− P4 macrocyclic inhibitors of the hepatitis C
virus (HCV) NS3 protease (eg, 1, Chart 1), we report a new but related compound series …

Pan-NS3 protease inhibitors of hepatitis C virus based on an R3-elongated pyrazinone scaffold

AK Belfrage, E Abdurakhmanov, E Åkerblom… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Herein, we present the design and synthesis of 2 (1H)-pyrazinone based HCV NS3 protease
inhibitors and show that elongated R 3 urea substituents were associated with increased …

1H-Imidazole-2,5-Dicarboxamides as NS4A Peptidomimetics: Identification of a New Approach to Inhibit HCV-NS3 Protease

AM Omar, MA Elfaky, ST Arold, SH Soror, MT Khayat… - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The nonstructural (NS) protein NS3/4A protease is a critical factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV)
maturation that requires activation by NS4A. Synthetic peptide mutants of NS4A were found …

Peptide-based inhibitors of hepatitis C virus full-length NS3 (protease-helicase/NTPase): model compounds towards small molecule inhibitors

K Oscarsson, A Poliakov, S Oscarson… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2003 - Elsevier
From l-α-aminobutyric acid (Abu) a set of electrophilic and non-electrophilic replacements
for the P1 cysteine of substrate and product inhibitors of hepatitis C virus full-length NS3 …

Discovery of novel potent and selective dipeptide hepatitis C virus NS3/4A serine protease inhibitors

P Raboisson, TI Lin, H de Kock, S Vendeville… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2008 - Elsevier
Starting from the previously reported HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitor BILN 2061 (1), we have
used a fast-follower approach to identify a novel series of HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitors in …

The design of a potent inhibitor of the hepatitis C virus NS3 protease: BILN 2061—From the NMR tube to the clinic

YS Tsantrizos - Peptide Science: Original Research on …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The virally encoded serine protease NS3/NS4A is essential to the life cycle of the hepatitis C
virus (HCV), an important human pathogen causing chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver …