Anchimerically Activatable Antiviral ProTides

Aniekan Okon; Marcos Romário Matos De Souza; Rachit Shah; Raquel Amorim; Luciana Jesus Da Costa; Carston R. Wagner

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Anchimerically Activatable Antiviral ProTides

Aniekan Okon, Marcos Romário Matos De Souza, Rachit Shah, Raquel Amorim, Luciana Jesus Da Costa, Carston R. Wagner

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This work describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of an anchimerically activated proTide of 2′-C-β-methylguanosine as an inhibitor of dengue virus 2 (DENV-2). The proTide incorporates a chemically cleavable 2-(methylthio)ethyl moiety and a HINT1 hydrolyzable tryptamine phosphoramidate. Inhibition of DENV-2 replication by proTide 6 was 5-fold greater than the parent nucleoside while displaying no apparent cytotoxicity. Furthermore, we demonstrate with a HINT1 inhibitor that the anti DENV-2 activity of the proTide correlates with the activity of HINT1. Taken together, these results demonstrate that a phosphoramidate based pronucleotide that undergoes an initial nonenzymatic activation step based on anchimeric assistance followed by P-N bond cleavage by HINT1 can be prepared.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	958-962
Number of pages	5
Journal	ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Volume	8
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.7b00277
State	Published - Sep 14 2017

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Dengue virus
Phosphoramidate
antiviral
pronucleotide

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