Current trends and limitations in dengue antiviral research

JO Obi, H Gutiérrez-Barbosa, JV Chua… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dengue is the most prevalent arthropod-borne viral disease worldwide and affects
approximately 2.5 billion people living in over 100 countries. Increasing geographic …

The dengue virus NS5 protein as a target for drug discovery

SP Lim, CG Noble, PY Shi - Antiviral research, 2015 - Elsevier
The non-structural protein 5 (NS5) of flaviviruses is the most conserved amongst the viral
proteins. It is about 900 kDa and bears enzymatic activities that play vital roles in virus …

The medicinal chemistry of dengue virus

MAM Behnam, C Nitsche, V Boldescu… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The dengue virus and related flaviviruses are an increasing global health threat. In this
perspective, we comment on and review medicinal chemistry efforts aimed at the prevention …

5′-Silylated 3′-1, 2, 3-triazolyl thymidine analogues as inhibitors of West Nile virus and dengue virus

SKV Vernekar, L Qiu, J Zhang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
West Nile virus (WNV) and Dengue virus (DENV) are important human pathogens for which
there are presently no vaccine or specific antivirals. We report herein a 5′-silylated …

Identification and characterization of novel broad-spectrum inhibitors of the flavivirus methyltransferase

M Brecher, H Chen, Z Li, NK Banavali… - ACS infectious …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Flavivirus methyltransferase (MTase) is essential for viral replication. Here we report the
identification of small molecules through virtual screening that putatively bind to the SAM …

New developments in flavivirus drug discovery

WM Kok - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Flaviviruses are major causes of infectious disease. The vast global, social and
economic impact due to morbidity and mortality associated with diseases caused by these …

Non-structural protein 5 (NS5) as a target for antiviral development against established and emergent flaviviruses

PO Fernandes, MA Chagas, WR Rocha… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flaviviruses are among the most critical pathogens in tropical regions and cause a growing
number of severe diseases in developing countries. The development of antiviral …

[HTML][HTML] Structural and functional insights into the 2′-O-methyltransferase of SARS-CoV-2

J Deng, F Gong, Y Li, X Tan, X Liu, S Yang, X Chen… - Virologica Sinica, 2024 - Elsevier
A unique feature of coronaviruses is their utilization of self-encoded nonstructural protein 16
(nsp16), 2′-O-methyltransferase (2′-O-MTase), to cap their RNAs through ribose 2′-O …

Crystal structures of flavivirus NS5 Guanylyltransferase reveal a GMP-arginine adduct

H Jia, Y Zhong, C Peng, P Gong - Journal of virology, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The positive-sense flavivirus RNA genome bears a cap 1 structure essential for RNA stability
and viral protein translation, and the formation of cap 1 requires the virally encoded …

Structural and functional basis of low-affinity SAM/SAH-binding in the conserved MTase of the multi-segmented Alongshan virus distantly related to canonical …

H Chen, S Lin, F Yang, Z Chen, L Guo, J Yang… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Alongshan virus (ALSV), a newly discovered member of unclassified Flaviviridae family, is
able to infect humans. ALSV has a multi-segmented genome organization and is …