Conjugating drug candidates to polymeric chains does not necessarily enhance anti-influenza activity
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Larson, Alyssa Maxine
Wang, Hongmei
Cao, Yang
Jiang, Taijiao
Chen, Jianzhu
Klibanov, Alexander M.
Date Issued
July 2012
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Wiley Blackwell
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Larson, Alyssa M. et al. “Conjugating Drug Candidates to Polymeric Chains Does Not Necessarily Enhance Anti-influenza Activity.” Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 101.10 (2012): 3896–3905.
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Abstract
Using the plaque reduction assay, relatively simple bicyclic quinone molecules, as well as multiple copies thereof covalently attached to a long polyglutamate-based polymeric chain, were examined as new inhibitors of various naturally occurring strains of influenza A virus. The polymer-conjugated inhibitors were found to have a far greater potency (for some as high as two orders of magnitude when a long spacer arm was employed) than their corresponding parent molecules against the human Wuhan influenza strain. However, such polymeric inhibitors failed to exhibit higher potency compared with their small molecule predecessors against the human Puerto Rico and avian turkey influenza strains. These observations, further explored by means of molecular modeling, reveal the previously unrecognized unpredictability of the benefits of multivalency, possibly because of poor accessibility of the viral targets to polymeric agents
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.1002/jps.23253
