Bifunctional polymeric inhibitors of human influenza A viruses
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Haldar, Jayanta; Alvarez de Cienfuegos, Luis; Tumpey, Terrence M.; Gubareva, Larisa V.; Chen, Jianzhu; Klibanov, Alexander M.; ... Show more Show less
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Purpose. New antiviral agents were prepared by attaching derivatives of sialic acid (1) and of the drug zanamivir (2) to poly(isobutylene-alt-maleic anhydride) (poly-(1 + 2)) or by mixing poly-1 and poly-2, followed by assaying them against wild-type and drug-resistant influenza A Wuhan viruses.
Methods. Individually or together 1 and 2 were covalently bonded to the polymer. The antiviral potencies of the resultant poly-1, poly-2, poly-(1 + 2), and poly-1 + poly-2, as well as 1 and 2, were assessed using plaque reduction assay.
Results. Attaching 1 to the polymer improved at best millimolar IC[subscript 50] values over three orders of magnitude. While 2 exhibited micromolar IC[subscript 50] values, poly-2 was >100-fold even more potent. The IC50 of poly-(1 + 2) against the wild-type strain was >300-fold and ~17-fold better than of poly-1 and poly-2, respectively. In contrast, the potency of poly-(1 + 2) vs. poly-2 against the mutant strain merely doubled. The mixture of poly-1 + poly-2 inhibited both viral strains similarly to poly-2.
Conclusions. The bifunctional poly-(1 + 2) acts synergistically against the wild-type influenza virus, but not against its drug-resistant mutant, as compared to a physical mixture of the monofunctional poly-1 and poly-2.
Date issued
2010-02Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of ChemistryJournal
Pharmaceutical Research
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Halder, Jayanta, Luis Alvarez de Cienfuegos, Terrence M. Tumpey, Larisa V. Gubareva, Jianzhu Chen, and Alexander M. Klibanov. "Bifunctional polymeric inhibitors of human influenza A viruses." Pharmaceutical Research 27.2 (2009): 259-263.
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0724-8741
1573-904X
Keywords
drug-resistant mutant, zanamivir, sialic acid, polymeric antiviral agents, Influenza virus