Viral Protease Inhibitors
| Autor: | Anderson, Jeffrey, Schiffer, Celia, Lee, Sook-Kyung, Swanstrom, Ronald |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Molecular viruses Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Substrate Envelope 3C Viral Proteases virus diseases Cytomegalovirus HIV Protease Inhibitors Hepacivirus Viral Nonstructural Proteins Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Antiviral Agents Article Cysteine Endopeptidases Viral Proteins Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus Viral Protease Inhibitor Drug Resistance Viral Viruses Animals Humans Drug Therapy Combination Protease Inhibitors Peptide Hydrolases |
| Zdroj: | Antiviral Strategies |
| Popis: | This review provides an overview of the development of viral protease inhibitors as antiviral drugs. We concentrate on HIV-1 protease inhibitors, as these have made the most significant advances in the recent past. Thus, we discuss the biochemistry of HIV-1 protease, inhibitor development, clinical use of inhibitors, and evolution of resistance. Since many different viruses encode essential proteases, it is possible to envision the development of a potent protease inhibitor for other viruses if the processing site sequence and the catalytic mechanism are known. At this time, interest in developing inhibitors is limited to viruses that cause chronic disease, viruses that have the potential to cause large-scale epidemics, or viruses that are sufficiently ubiquitous that treating an acute infection would be beneficial even if the infection was ultimately self-limiting. Protease inhibitor development is most advanced for hepatitis C virus (HCV), and we also provide a review of HCV NS3/4A serine protease inhibitor development, including combination therapy and resistance. Finally, we discuss other viral proteases as potential drug targets, including those from Dengue virus, cytomegalovirus, rhinovirus, and coronavirus. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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